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outbrazen (third-person singular simple present outbrazens, present participle outbrazening, simple past and past participle outbrazened)

1. (archaic, transitive) To stand one's ground or maintain one's point, or defend bad deeds in a brazen manner.

   Synonym: brazen out

   • 1679, The Condemnation of the cheating Popish priest‎:

     But of these folks honestly, and the asseverations of traiterous popish Priests, when at their Tryals or Executions they would outbrazen their guilt with pretensions of innocence

   • 1871, Bart Randal H. Roberts, Modern War‎:

     his better-half […] outbrazens the sins of her husband, bullies the soldiers, and cringes to the officers

2. (transitive) To surpass in impudence.
   • 1702, Tom Brown, Letters from the Dead to the Living:

     see their impudence outbrazen'd by a club of mortal puritans

   • 1878, E. Jenkins, Haverholme:

     Could you not face the world and outbrazen the Devil?

参照

• “outbrazen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• brazen out