Also 8 effronterie, -ary. [ad. F. effronterie, f. effronté: see EFFRONTED.] Shameless audacity, unblushing insolence. Also concr.
1715. M. Davies, Ath. Brit., I. Pref. 28. By Printing those Orthodox Letters he gain’d the Point of making his own Effrontaries to sell the better.
1720. Welton, Suffer. Son of God, I. v. 100. I … Express my Resentment … by the Superficial Effrontery, and Contraction of my Brows!
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1779), III. lxxx. 65. The happy inheritance of impregnable effrontery.
1814. D’Israeli, Quarrels Auth. (1867), 362. Both as modest in their youth as afterwards remarkable for their effrontery.
1858. Robertson, Lect., ii. 58. With blasphemy and unscrupulous effrontery.
Hence † Effronterist [see -IST], nonce-wd., one who displays effrontery.
1776. Adventures of a Cork-screw, ii. 18. He was now become a perfect effronterist, and could unfeelingly commit the grossest of crimes without a blush.
