Brazen

/ˈbɹeɪ̯zən/ · adjective

Meaning

(archaic) Made of brass..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Made of brass.
2. (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.
3. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
4. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
5. Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.
6. (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
7. (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

Example Sentences

Brazen or rather copper swords seem to have been next introduced; these in process of time, workmen learned to harden by the addition of some other metal or mineral, which rendered them almost equal in temper to iron.

And Moses made a brass image of the fiery serpents, and put it up on a pole, where all the people could see it; and when any one was bitten, he could look upon the brazen serpent, and was cured.

The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.

The vegetation was similar to that which covers the lawns of the red Martians of the great waterways, but the trees and birds were unlike anything that I had ever seen upon Mars, and then through the further trees I could see that most un-Martian of all sights—an open sea, its blue waters shimmering beneath the brazen sun.

Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.

And now the Trumpets terribly from far, / With rattling Clangor, rouze the sleepy War. / The Souldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, / And Heav'n, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds.

Often a traveller, when the air is quiet, / Will make the night reverberate with this riot / Of brazen sounds, whose singing cadence swells / The harmony of bleating and lambs' bells.

The giant [Goliath] was thus conquered by the youth [David]; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.

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Word Forms

• more brazen
• brazener
• most brazen
• brazenest
• brasen
• brazens
• brazening
• brazened

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