prosilient

prosilient (comparative more prosilient, superlative most prosilient)

1. Eminent; prominent; distinguished above others.
   • 1916, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, The Conqueror, page 469:

     All travellers of distinction brought letters to Hamilton, for, not excepting Washington, he was to Europeans the most prosilient of Americans.

   • 1928, Modern Music: A Quarterly Review - Volumes 6-9, page 21:

     The piano concerto mentioned as among the prosilient works of the year was that of Ernest Toch, his opus 54.

   • 2007, Suresh Chandra Dwivedi, ‎Shubha Dwivedi, Poet Dr. Mahendra Bhatnagar: His Mind and Art, page 1:

     Maheudra Bhatnagar : A Prosilient Poet of Optimism and Certitude

2. obvious; salient; prominent; conspicuous.
   • 1974, Indian Textile Industry Annual - Volume 35, page 33:

     The economic depression in the world sericulture industry became suddenly prosilient following the dramatic decision by Japan to call off imports altogether.

   • 1980, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‎George Whalley, ‎H. J. Jackson, Marginalia - Volume 12, Part 4, page 67:

     Even granting what I hold extravagant, that the two Ev. Inf. can be conjured into compatibility — still the prima facie differences and seeming Contradictions are too many, too important, too prosilient not to have been noticed & explained by the Compiler.

   • 2004, Carol A. Hess, Sacred Passions : The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla, →ISBN:

     It is difficult to make a death episode . . . without having previously brought the characters into more prosilient relief than those of the Shaw–de Falla opera.

prōsilient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of prōsiliō