outrance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was a pacifist a tout outrance, as the French say.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a sharp example one might point to Thomas Davidson, whom William James called "individualist à outrance"....
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter
Individualist à outrance, Davidson felt that every hour was an unique entity, to whose claims one should lie open.
From Memories and Studies by James, Henry
Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued à outrance.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.
But she was more than neutralized; it was evident that the Monitor was the better craft of the two, and that in a combat à outrance she would win.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
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