brazening through

adjective

shameless or impudent: brazen presumption.

made of brass.

like brass, as in sound, color, or strength.

verb (used with object)

to make brazen or bold.

Verb phrases

brazen outthrough, to face boldly or shamelessly: He prefers to brazen it out rather than admit defeat.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English brasen (adj.), Old English bræsen of brass

Related forms

bra·zen·ly, adverb

bra·zen·ness, noun

out·bra·zen, verb (used with object)

un·bra·zen, adjective

un·bra·zen·ly, adverb

un·bra·zen·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 3. brassy. 1. insolent, defiant. See bold.

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brazen (ˈbreɪz^ən)

—*adj*
1.	shameless and bold
2.	made of or resembling brass
3.	having a ringing metallic sound like that of a brass trumpet

—vb (usually foll by out or through)
4.	to face and overcome boldly or shamelessly: the witness brazened out the prosecutor's questions
5.	to make (oneself, etc) bold or brash

[Old English bræsen, from bræsbrass]

'brazenly

—*adv*

'brazenness

—n

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Word Origin & History

brazen

O.E. bræsen "of brass," from bræs "brass" + see -en (2). The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is 1570s (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1550s.

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"Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air.
It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it."

-Willa Cather

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