full-faced

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1. Having a plump or round face.

   a chubby, full-faced child

2. Having the face fully turned toward any person or thing; facing.

   I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.

   2011, Jan Johnson, Living a Purpose-Full Life

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   "Why not?" demanded Joolby, turning on his props to regard George with the blank full-faced stare that presented his disconcerting features in their most pronounced aspect. "What's the difficulty?"

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

3. Showing the face fully, completely, or intact.

   full-faced and full-length figures

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1. In a full-faced manner.

   So God declines to show Moses His glory full-faced, but He promises to do something else: He will allow Moses to glimpse the glory that follows His presence and then to proclaim, or explain to him, His name — the name of the Lord.

   2005, Richard L. Neil, The God You Thought You Knew