outbraved

I felt much moved that Will had faced his fears and outbraved them to come to help me, but this seemed no time for long speeches.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

I felt much moved that Will had faced his fears and outbraved them to come to help me, but this seemed no time for long speeches.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

The pirates called a council, and decided to give them the slip, having "outbraved them," and done as much as honour called for.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Only shame to be outbraved by his younger companion and pupil made him nod and mutter his assent.

Black Jack Max Brand 1918

Where Basrig ye outbraved, and Halden sword to sword.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Methinks there should be that magnanimity in every Christian, that he should scorn to be outbraved by any, in point of spiritual fortitude; and to make that noble resolution that Nehemiah did, in chap. vi.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

Nor was the government only, but also the glory of the English nation changed; distinction of orders confounded, the gentry outbraved, and the nobility, who voted the bishops out of their dignities in parliament, by the just judgment of God thrust out themselves, and brought under the scorn and imperious lash of a beggar on horseback;

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

Supposing by the intercession of great friends he has outbraved justice, and triumphed over the law by a full acquitment, 62.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

Though, let them affirm it never so much in words, there are not wanting arguments to persuade us, that their mouth belies their heart; and that they have an inward, invincible sense of what they outwardly renounce, holding them under the iron bands of a conviction not to be stifled or outbraved, or hectored out of their conscience; as shall be discoursed of afterwards.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

Hernan Perez del Pulgar, surnamed "He of the exploits," was present, and resolved not to be outbraved by this daring infidel.

Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Washington Irving 1821