outrecuidance
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It is a strange outrecuidance, your humour too much redoundeth.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
But the Soldan, in his outrecuidance, demands single combat.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Frank Harris
The outrecuidance of the rogues in the Netherlands would be surpassing, did we feed it in that sort.’
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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