Outface
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Outface is a verb meaning (transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay.
Meaning
(transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To boldly confront a situation.
Example Sentences
Weele haue a ſwaſhing and marſhall outſide, / As manie other manniſh cowards haue, / That doe outface it with their ſemblances.
Thou maiſt I warrant, we ſhall haue old ſwearing / That they did giue the Rings away to men, / But weele out-face them, and out-ſweare them too, [...]
Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
Word Forms
- outfaces
- outfacing
- outfaced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include face down, face off, downface, outgaze, outstare, unface.
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