effrontuously

English

Adverb

effrontuously (comparative more effrontuously, superlative most effrontuously)

1. (obsolete) impudently
   • a. 1734, Roger North, The lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper Of The Great Seal, Under King Charles II. And King James II:

     All these loads of the death of King Charles II. the managing in order to the coronation, and the parliament, and sitting there to hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontuously arraigned, which he must defend with all the criticism and reason, as well as temper, that he could, by stress of thought, muster.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “effrontuously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)