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outˈbrazen, v.
[f. out- 15 b, 18 + brazen v.]
1. To brazen out; to face out or maintain defiantly or impudently.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 29 (1713) I. 190 To out-brazen the Belief of a Conspiracy..to seize the King. 1755Young Centaur Ded. 15 High-bred, unbridled colts..with a blaze in their foreheads, to outbrazen my rebukes.
2. To outdo or surpass in unabashedness.
1702T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead Wks. 1760 II. 216 The expertest devils..turn pale..to see their impudence out⁓brazen'd by a club of mortal puritans. 1710Managers' Pro & Con 39 Did he not..out-brazen Sacheverell himself? 1878E. Jenkins Haverholme 6 Could you not face the world and outbrazen the Devil? |