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† eˈffrontuous, a. Obs. rare.
[irreg. f. effronted, after words like affectuous, fatuous.]
Characterized by effrontery.
a1734North Exam. iii. vii. 543 That a Government should appear so weak as to suffer such an effrontuous proceeding to run on to this height.
Hence eˈffrontuously, adv.
a1734North Lives II. 127 To hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontuously arraigned. ― Exam. i. i. 23. |