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Definition of Brazening
1. brazen [v] - See also: brazen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brazening
Literary usage of Brazening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"Awhile the flaring disk seemed to perch itself on the far summit of the mountains
in the west, brazening all the sky above the city, ..."
2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"And fifty tried rowers were there and insolent marines, who having seized seats
in the ship were brazening it, and forgetting themselves through drunkenness ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"I walked up and down the deck, brazening it out, but very sick at heart.
But officers and men looked coldly on me ; and that evening at Almeria, ..."
4. Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire by Samuel Dill (1899)
"Men and women, vowed to perpetual chastity, lived under the same roof,6 brazening
out the miserable imposture of ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"For I knew there was nothing for it but brazening it out " Upon the honour of a
gentleman !" said I, turning round to the boys. They hesitated; and if the ..."