outrance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was a pacifist a tout outrance, as the French say.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once he fixed her with his calm gray eyes, she met them with a proud flashing glance; Telfer gave back the defiance, and guerre à outrance was declared between them.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
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
His "Automedon," his portrait of General Prim, even his "Salome," are wilful in a degree that is either superb or superficial, as one looks at them; but at any rate they are romantic à outrance.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
With bits of paper and chips of wood I did what I could to stop the din, and bit my lip and declared war à outrance against so unbearable a row.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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