outface

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- Late Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face English outface From out- + face.

1. To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay

   “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, [...]”

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

2. To boldly confront a situation.

   “Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.”