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Definition of Outfaces
1. outface [v] - See also: outface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outfaces
Literary usage of Outfaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"Father Desjardins, of the Society of Jesus, tells the world that, inspired with
sacred boldness (tie saintes outfaces'), he has torn from the hands of the ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1857)
"To me military life is like dancing up a long room with a mirror at the end,
against which we cut outfaces, and so the deception ends. ..."
3. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"... it turns aside the edge of the sword ; it outfaces instruments of cruelty; it
converts executioners. It was remembered with exultation, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1811)
"We have now beheld atheism so bold, lhat it no more skulks in corners, but outfaces
the sun and men. We have lived to see religion openly scoffed down, ..."
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