Definition of "prominency" [prominency]

• Prominence: rose to a position of prominency as an ambassador. (noun)

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• "'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague."
• "They rallied me with a good deal of gaiety on different subjects, particularly upon the whiteness of my skin and the prominency of my nose."
• "At this single point, a line of antecedent religious life in Scotland rises into brief and impressive prominency."