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outbrave, v.|aʊtˈbreɪv|
[out- 18 b.]
1. trans. To face with show of defiance; to stand out against bravely or defiantly.
1589Nashe Ded. Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 6 Who..think to outbraue better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse. 1605Rowlands Hell's Broke Loose 36, I haue knowne men die, That haue out-brau'd the Hang-man to his face. 1622Markham Decades Warre v. 200 Let him therefore only outbraue danger, not wooe it. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 20 Instead of guarding against the inclemency of the weather, they outbrave it. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. xii. 326 The Duke sat outfacing his accusers, and outbraving their accusations.
2. To outdo or surpass in bravery or daring.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 28, I would..Out-brave the heart most daring on the earth.. To win the Ladie. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. v. 82 That those proud Airies,..Out⁓brave not this our kind in mettle. 1814Byron Lara ii. xiv, Outnumber'd, not outbraved, they still oppose Despair to daring, and a front to foes.
b. To outdo or excel in beauty, finery, or splendour of array; cf. bravery 3.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 60 Cupide dismounted from his mothers lappe..to outbraue the Thessalian dames in their beautie. 1597Gerarde Herbal Pref., The Lillies of the field outbraued him. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 487 Solomon himself is out-braved therewith [a flower]. 1861Dixon Pers. Hist. Bacon vii. §21 The prodigal bride⁓groom,..clad in a suit of Genoese velvet, purple from cap to shoe, outbraves them all.
c. To outrival or surpass (in any quality).
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx, My husband though by trade a Smith, for birth out-brau'd of none. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxii. 48 Liuells, a large Waste, which other plaines out-braues. 1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 310 He affected every where..to out-brave them on all publick occasions.
Hence outˈbraved ppl. a., outˈbraving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1601Chester Love's Mart. (Shaks. Soc.) 56 Their out⁓brauing termes. 1630I. Craven God's Tribunall (1631) 32 The out-brauings of roaring Ephraimites. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox iii. 50, I am no Man to suffer such out-braving Language. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 129 Suffice it, that no outbraved death Might end him. 1871Rossetti Poems, Jenny 81 From shame and shame's out-braving too, Is rest not sometimes sweet to you? |