Definitions
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- verb transitive, archaic, rare to persist boldly in an assertion
Etymologies
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down + face
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Examples
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And that was a truth she could not downface, mean and ungenerous though thinking it might be.
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As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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And that was a truth she could not downface, mean and ungenerous though thinking it might be.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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As true as I’m drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he’d try to downface you that dying was living. —
Ulysses 2003
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