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Perspicuous

adjective
1.
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable.  Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid.  "Lucid directions" , "A luculent oration" , "Pellucid prose" , "A crystal clear explanation" , "A perspicuous argument"



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"Perspicuous" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nation's shown To be in Thought concurrent with his own. Shaftsbury! A Soul that Nature did impart To raise her Wonder in a Brain and Heart; Or that in him produc'd, the World might know, She others did with drooping Thought bestow. As in Mans most perspicuous Soul, we find The nearest Draught of her Internal Mind, Tho it appears her highest Act of State, When Human Conducts she does most compleat, And place them so, for Mankinds good, that they Are fit to Guide, ...
— Anti-Achitophel (1682) - Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden • Elkanah Settle et al.

... of predestination, or rather the doctrine of election, which lies at its foundation, is, when rightly understood, perfectly consistent with the impartiality and glory of the goodness of God. On this subject we shall now proceed to unfold our views in as orderly and perspicuous a ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe



Words linked to "Perspicuous" :   language, clear, linguistic communication, perspicuity



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