effrontit

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

French effronté.

Adjective[edit]

effrontit (comparative more effrontit, superlative most effrontit)

  1. (obsolete) Marked by impudence.
    • 1612, Jeremy Taylor, The Scvller Rowing From Tiber To Thames:
      From men besotted he doth honour steale, And yet with his effrontit shamelesse face, Seemes to command the diuell that gaue him place.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “effrontit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)