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noun

Obverse n.

The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; the other side being the reverse.

Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. "The fact that it (a belief) invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief."

adjective

Obverse adj. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

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Etymology of 'Obverse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Obverse" Quotes from Famous Books

... will hear of his failure. Or he may have done well for years, and still do well, but the critics may have tired of praising him, or there may have sprung up some new idol of the instant, some "dust a little gilt," to whom they now prefer to offer sacrifice. Here is the obverse and the reverse of that empty and ugly thing called popularity. Will any man suppose it worth ...

— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson

... signed by the engineer of the works; and on the obverse was written, "The bearer, Ruby Brand, is serving as a blacksmith in the erection of the ...

— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne

... the Nonjuring schism was political rather than religious; and its roots go out to vital events of the past. At the bottom it is the obverse side of the Divine Right of kings that they represent. That theory, which was the main weapon of the early secular state against the pretensions of Rome, must naturally have commanded the allegiance of members of a church which James I, ...

— Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham • Harold J. Laski

... reference to the observations of your correspondents A. S. and H., I would beg to observe that, some time ago, I gave to the Museum at Winchester a medal struck on the occasion of the marriage of Prince James F. E. Stuart and M. Clementina Sobieski: on the obverse is a very striking head and bust ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 • Various

... a state, man's capacities would be liberated; while in existing political organizations his powers were hampered and distorted to meet the requirements and selfish interests of the rulers of the state. The doctrine of extreme individualism was but the counterpart, the obverse, of ideals of the indefinite perfectibility of man and of a social organization having a scope as wide as humanity. The emancipated individual was to become the organ and agent of a comprehensive ...

— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

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