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adjective

Flagrant adj.

Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. "The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back." "A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle." "Flagrant desires and affections."

Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. "A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant."

Flaming into notice; notorious; enormous; heinous; glaringly wicked.

Synonyms: Atrocious; flagitious; glaring. See Atrocious.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flagrant" Quotes from Famous Books

... apologize so ceremoniously to the ladies; for you've involved yourself in a flagrant contradiction. You said that these two costumes were equally beautiful; and here's the lady of 1812 with her dress all clinging in little wrinkles round her feet, while the peasant-girl's frock is wider at the bottom than ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... the Judge, "you have committed an act of grievous impropriety. You have been guilty of one of the most reprehensible offences that any citizen of a Commonwealth founded upon order and justice could commit, an act of such flagrant culpability that the Court, in the maintenance of its dignity and in the interest of the Commonwealth found it necessary to visit upon you punishment of great severity and incarcerate you in the gaol usually ...

— The Sheriffs Bluff - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page

... this city we have discovered a most flagrant iniquity: here is a professed courtesan, who refuses money ...

— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... flagrant instance of the abuse of parental authority. But a suit is quite unnecessary. Your father must hand over to you the half-million, plus compound-interest for twenty-five years—an enormous sum! There can be no possible ...

— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley

... which surpassed his strength.' —Ihne. 4-6. By the Sempronian Laws of C. Gracchus 123 B.C. exclusive judicial rights had been given to the Equites, as a counterpoise to the power of the Senate. The corruption of the Equites (as Judices) was flagrant, and Drusus proposed to transfer the judicial functions to a mixed body of 300 Senators and 300 Knights, the selected Knights to be included in the now attenuated ranks of the Senate. 14. ad dandam civitatem Italiae. The claims of the Italians ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

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