Obverse

Definition of Obverse

Ob`verse´ Pronunciation: ǒb`vẽrs´

a.	1.	Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
n.	1.	The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; - the other side being the reverse.
	2.	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. - H. Spencer.

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