palmary
Example Sentences
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The Progress of Philosophy or of Wisdom is a palmary instance of progress achieved out of the internal resources of that which progresses.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
But let us examine this principle a little more attentively—for it is the palmary one.
From On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It remains briefly to consider these three palmary texts in their reciprocal relations to each other, by which the fullest light is thrown upon the scriptural prerogatives of S. Peter.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies
Whether we betake ourselves to the Ante-nicene writers or the Nicene, certain texts will meet us, which do not obviously refer to that doctrine, yet are put forward as palmary proofs of it.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Yet this is what M. Bergson does in his whole defence of metaphysical vitalism, and especially in the instance of the evolution of eyes by two different methods, which is his palmary argument.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
