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outrance
[ oo-trahns ]
noun
, French.
- the utmost extremity.
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But a narrow bridge over a deep gulf is a bad place for a battle outrance.
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Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued outrance.
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Outrance, owt′rans, n. the utmost extremity: the bitter end.
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The end of it was a combat à outrance in the meads by the Loire, with all Tours on the walls to behold it.
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He had the ill luck to push his sports too far; and did kill a knight of Lancashire in a battle à outrance.
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