effrontery
(ɛˈfrʌntərɪ)
Also 8 effronterie, -ary.
[ad. F. effronterie, f. effronté: see effronted.]
Shameless audacity, unblushing insolence. Also concr.
| 1715 M. Davies Ath. Brit. I. Pref. 28 By Printing those Orthodox Letters he gain'd the Point of making his own Effrontaries to sell the better. 1720 Welton Suffer. Son of God I. v. 100, I express my Resentment..by the superficial Effrontery..of my Brows. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) III. lxxx. 65 The happy inheritance of impregnable effrontery. 1814 D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. (1867) 362 Both as modest in their youth as afterwards remarkable for their effrontery. 1858 Robertson Lect. ii. 58 With blasphemy and unscrupulous effrontery. |
Hence † eˈffronterist [see -ist], nonce-wd, one who displays effrontery.
| 1776 Adv. Corkscrew ii. 18 He was now become a perfect effronterist. |