outrecuidance

Example Sentences

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It is a strange outrecuidance, your humour too much redoundeth.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

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

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 the Soldan, in his outrecuidance, demands single combat.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

The outrecuidance of the rogues in the Netherlands would be surpassing, did we feed it in that sort.’

From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary