palmary

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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 Newman, John Henry Cardinal

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Each of the palmary sites of which we have spoken has rendered up examples of early Greek temples.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

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 Marvin, Francis Sydney

Our body itself is the palmary instance of the ambiguous.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William