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frontose

frontose , boldly, impudently, shamelessly. a690 si vero quippiam, inscitia suppeditante garrula, ~e convincitur pagina prompsisse Aldh. Ep. 5 p. 493; qui patris sui verenda non operuerunt, sed potius ~e detegere nequaquam veriti sunt H. Bos. Thom. IV 8 p. 337; [Gilbertus, episc. Lond.] se de jure archipresulem debere fieri publice contendebat et archipresulatum sibi ~e nimis vindicare non erubuit Id. Ep. 1423c; 1281 vos nullam paupertatem pretendentes sed elacionem pocius nobis ~e fudistis Peckham Ep. 158; c1375 quod quidam nuper ~e nimium et impudenter prioratum dictum de Coldingham ‥ ausu temerario depredarunt, ipsum cenobium bonis omnibus spoliando Pri. Cold. 52; quo tergiversari potest nisi forte velit ~e dicere Augustinum plane mentiri? Netter DAF I 41. 2.

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