Definition of Brazening

1. Verb. (present participle of brazen) ¹

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Definition of Brazening

1. brazen [v] - See also: brazen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brazening

brayings
brays
braza
brazas
braze
brazed
brazeletta
brazen
brazen-faced
brazen bull
brazen bulls
brazened
brazenface
brazenfaced
brazenfaces
brazening (current term)
brazenly
brazenness
brazennesses
brazenry
brazens
brazer
brazers
brazes
brazier
brazierlike
braziers
brazil
brazil-nut tree
brazil nut

Literary usage of Brazening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"Awhile the flaring disk seemed to perch itself on the far summit of the mountains in the west, brazening all the sky above the city, ..."

2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"And fifty tried rowers were there and insolent marines, who having seized seats in the ship were brazening it, and forgetting themselves through drunkenness ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"I walked up and down the deck, brazening it out, but very sick at heart. But officers and men looked coldly on me ; and that evening at Almeria, ..."

4. Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire by Samuel Dill (1899)
"Men and women, vowed to perpetual chastity, lived under the same roof,6 brazening out the miserable imposture of ..."

5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"For I knew there was nothing for it but brazening it out " Upon the honour of a gentleman !" said I, turning round to the boys. They hesitated; and if the ..."

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