outrance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was a pacifist a tout outrance, as the French say.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 Stables, Gordon
Thereupon the central committee of the Nihilists proclaimed war à outrance until the Czar conceded to a popularly elected National Assembly the right to reform the life of Russia.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by Rose, John Holland
On any other day I had deemed it impossible to say him nay, but now with a real vengeance, a quarrel à outrance on my hands, he seemed of no consequence at all.
From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha
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