all-defiantadj.
/ˌɔːldᵻˈfʌɪənt/, U.S. /ˈˌɔldəˈfaɪənt/, /ˈˌɑldəˈfaɪənt/, /ˈˌɔldiˈfaɪənt/, /ˈˌɑldiˈfaɪənt/ literary. Now rare.
Defying everyone or everything; showing complete defiance; asserting oneself boldly in the face of the judgement of critics and enemies.
ΚΠ
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iii. 223 In passionate burning all-defiant loyalty.
1883 Radical Rev. 1 Sept. 6/3 The same all-defiant spirit, though dormant and quiescent, lives everywhere in the little island still.
1912 W. E. Chancellor Our Presidents & their Office ii. 83 Half-tailor, half-official, all-defiant, Johnson spoke for the poor.
1955 J. Branch Cabell As I remember It 239 The Cabell of popular myth, that all-defiant rake-hellion.
Derivatives
ˌall-deˈfiance n. rare defiance of everyone; bold self-assertion.
ΚΠ
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 656 Erect, with its foot on the neck of Hydra Babylon, with its open Bible and drawn Sword, shall Puritanism stand, and with pious all-defiance victoriously front the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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