outrecuidance

Example Sentences

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

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

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

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

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

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

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