outfaceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

outface (三人称単数 現在形 outfaces, 現在分詞 outfacing, 過去形および過去分詞形 outfaced)

1. (transitive) To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay
   • c. 1596–1598, W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, OCLC 24594216, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     Thou maiſt I warrant, we ſhall haue old ſwearing / That they did giue the Rings away to men, / But weele out-face them, and out-ſweare them too, [...]

   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], page 187, column 2:

     Weele haue a ſwaſhing and marſhall outſide, / As manie other manniſh cowards haue, / That doe outface it with their ſemblances.