Meanings of patent fact in English

This is not merely a doctrine: it is a fact; a common, patent fact.

A patent fact lies at the bottom of this incredulity.

But however this might be, here was a patent fact.

That the Negro has been a large labor factor in the South is a patent fact.

They knew little about it, beyond the grimly- patent fact that they were battling for their very lives.

Still, if the catastrophe itself was a patent fact, its motive, its surroundings, could only be conjectured.

No one questions the patent fact of responsibility as legal; the only question is touching responsibility as moral.

Before they were halfway to London the event he had just begun to realize was a patent fact.

But whether I am right or wrong about all this, the patent fact of the limitation of time remains.

This is a patent fact.

His quick, keen glances took in the patent fact that some one had removed all the discarded clothing from sight.

We feel dissatisfaction, and think that such and-such a thing would remove it; but in thinking this, we are theorizing, not observing a patent fact.

Mankind can dispense with a teacher who misses patent facts, whatever his charm.

These are the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat.

The contrary is proved by patent facts.

Like her father, she was sudden to pounce upon the concealed meaning of patent facts-andshe had spent the morning with Ruth.