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outbrazen en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + brazen.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To stand one's ground or maintain one's point, or defend bad deeds in a brazen manner.
   • 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 1679, The Condemnation of the cheating Popish priest:
   • his better-half[…]outbrazens the sins of her husband, bullies the soldiers, and cringes to the officers 1871, Bart Randal H. Roberts, Modern War:
2. (transitive) To surpass in impudence.
   • Could you not face the world and outbrazen the Devil? 1878, E. Jenkins, Haverholme:
   • see their impudence outbrazen'd by a club of mortal puritans 1702, Tom Brown, Letters from the Dead to the Living:

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Synonyms

brazen out