outrance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was a pacifist a tout outrance, as the French say.
From Time Magazine Archive
The municipal councillors, weak men, some of them, almost to reaction, had lowered the red flag under the pretext that "the proud flag of resistance à outrance should not survive the humiliation of France."
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Hernandez hangs back, as though he would rather decline this combat à outrance.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
I would suggest that the combat be � outrance," Gui Camoys said, "in consideration of the fact it was my own helmet.
From Chivalry by Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green
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
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