to countenance out (also, to countenance): to face out, persist in maintaining unblushingly or unfalteringly; also (of a thing) to bear out…

to face down (also out): to put down, overcome (a person) by a show of determination, or by browbeating; to dispute (a statement, argument) with…

intransitive. To persist in asserting (a statement, claim, etc.); to maintain. Formerly also with that-clause as complement.

intransitive. to stand upon it: to insist, or persist in maintaining, that something is the case. Obsolete.

intransitive. To insist on having. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. With object clause: to persist in asserting, maintain (that). Also (and in earliest use) with it as object and usually with clause (esp…

transitive. colloquial. With double object. To insist (that something is the case) to (a person). Obsolete.

transitive to strike, work at, as with a sledgehammer.