outrance
Americannoun
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He was a pacifist a tout outrance, as the French say.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a Socialist and a pacifist à outrance, continuing his dream of universal fraternity in the midst of war.
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
But if the shield was touched with the sharp end of the lance, the combat was understood to be at "outrance", that is, the knights were to fight with sharp weapons, as in actual battle.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The end of it was a combat à outrance in the meads by the Loire, with all Tours on the walls to behold it.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
“I fought her to the utterance”: the last or utmost extremity—the same as Fr. à outrance.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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