outrecuidance

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Lord Alfred Douglas' boldness gave Oscar outrecuidance, an insolent arrogance: artist-like he tried to outdo his model in aristocratic disdain.

From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Harris, Frank

My Lord Mayenne, it was no outrecuidance brought me here this morning.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

Poor laddie, what would be outrecuidance in another is but duteousness in him.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

But I may perhaps say, without outrecuidance, that there is an Art de négliger les dates as well as one de les verifier.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

He does not return home, but swears by the sceptre that Agamemnon shall rue his outrecuidance when Hector slays the host.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew