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Outface  v. t.  (past & past part. outfaced; pres. part. outfacing)  To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave. "Having outfaced all the world."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Outface" Quotes from Famous Books



... more then common tall, That I did suite me all points like a man, A gallant curtelax vpon my thigh, A bore-speare in my hand, and in my heart Lye there what hidden womans feare there will, Weele haue a swashing and a marshall outside, As manie other mannish cowards haue, That doe outface ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers. Just as in the early days of British Somaliland, rascals would descend from nowhere in particular upon unfortunate villages, levy taxes and administer atrocity in the name of the Empire, and even, I am told, outface for a time the modest heralds of the government, so in this department of anthropology the public mind suffers from the imposition of theories and assertions claiming to be "scientific," which have no more relation to that organized system of criticism which is science, than a brigand at large ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Outface" :   stare, outstare, gaze, stare down



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