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Outface

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay transitive

    "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, [...]"

  2. 2
    overcome or cause to waver or submit by (or as if by) staring wordnet
  3. 3
    To boldly confront a situation. transitive

    "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."

Etymology

From out- + face.

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