à outrance
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French à outrance. Compare to the outrance.
Adverb
à outrance (not comparable)
- To the greatest extent, to the utmost.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 79:
- Here a crucial political decision was taken by unaminous vote: the armed revolt under preparation would not be one single blow aimed at drawing concessions from France, but an "unlimited revolution" à outrance to continue until full independence was achieved.
- 2006, Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?:
- However, apart from Windham and Fitzwilliam (and also the King, whose views hardly counted any more), no one in Government had any relish left for an ideological war à outrance.
- 2012, Catherine Peters, ‘Court in the Act’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- Two other young men, both tutors to her sons, also figured sentimentally in her diaries, though not à outrance.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 79:
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adverb
- unremittingly, unflaggingly
- to the utmost, to the death
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