outbrazen

present singular third person outbrazens · participle present outbrazening · participle past outbrazened · past outbrazened

1. archaictransitiveTo stand one's ground or maintain one's point, or defend bad deeds in a brazen manner.

   his better-half[…]outbrazens the sins of her husband, bullies the soldiers, and cringes to the officers

   1871, Bart Randal H. Roberts, Modern War

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   But of these folks honestly, and the asseverations of traiterous popish Priests, when at their Tryals or Executions they would outbrazen their guilt with pretensions of innocence

   1679, The Condemnation of the cheating Popish priest

   Synonyms: brazen out

2. transitiveTo surpass in impudence.

   Could you not face the world and outbrazen the Devil?

   1878, E. Jenkins, Haverholme

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   see their impudence outbrazen'd by a club of mortal puritans

   1702, Tom Brown, Letters from the Dead to the Living