outbrave
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editoutbrave (third-person singular simple present outbraves, present participle outbraving, simple past and past participle outbraved)
- To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
- To surpass or outrival.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review Books, 2001, p.263:
- to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves.
- To be more brave than.
- 1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67:
- There, like one possessed,
Outraving and outbraving all the rest,
One Lycabas, from Tuscan city sent
To purge a deed of blood by banishment,
As I withstood him, struck a breakneck blow,
And would have dashed me to the waves below […]