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prominence (n.)
1590s, "projection," from obsolete French
prominence
(16c.), from Latin
prominentia
"a jutting out" (see
prominent
). Meaning "distinction, conspicuousness" is attested by 1827. As a type of solar phenomenon, from 1862.
