She might actually have wished in fact that he shouldn't now have seemed so tremendously struck with her; since it was an extraordinary situation for a girl, this crisis of her fortune, this positive wrong that the flagrancy, what she would have been ready to call the very vulgarity, of her good looks might do her at a moment when it was vital she should hang as straight as a picture on the wall.

publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox populi; report &c (news) 532.

The principal cause of the Reformation was the general corruption of the Church and the flagrancy of its oppression.

By the changing of t into ce or cy: as, radiant, radiance; consequent, consequence; flagrant, flagrancy; current, currency; discrepant, discrepance, or discrepancy.

She has hinted rather than fully expressed it, as though fearing a certain flagrancy in too public an exhibition of her enchantments.

There hasn't been anything approaching the flagrancy of Roman divorce in modern history.

harvestI think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion.

I do not think they have found out a good cure; and I am of opinion, too, that flagrancy proceeds from national depravity, which tinkering one branch will not remedy.

Mrs. Brewster, head and shoulders in a trunk, was trying not to listen and not to seem not to listen to Miz' Merz' recital of her husband's relations' latest flagrancy.

" Contrast this flagrancy in advocacy of the cause of the barbarous natives with the last words Cook wrote in his journal.