adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a conspicuous manner.
1626. J. Kennedy (title), The Historie of Calanthrop and Lvcilla, conspicuously demonstrating the Mutabilities of Fortune in their Loues.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxx. 177. How conspicuously soever he shine in the Common-wealth.
a. 1732. Gay, Fables, II. xi. 30. In foremost rank the coward placed, Is more conspicuously disgraced.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. ix. 417. The next year is conspicuously a year of deaths.
1885. Truth, 28 May, 837/1. From the present exhibition their works are conspicuously absent.
