† eˈffrontuous, a. Obs. rare.
[irreg. f. effronted, after words like affectuous, fatuous.]
Characterized by effrontery.
| a 1734 North Exam. iii. vii. 543 That a Government should appear so weak as to suffer such an effrontuous proceeding to run on to this height. |
Hence eˈffrontuously, adv.
| a 1734 North Lives II. 127 To hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontuously arraigned. ― Exam. i. i. 23. |