a. Obs. rare. [irreg. f. EFFRONTED, after words like affectuous, fatuous.] Characterized by effrontery.

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a. 1734.  North, Examen, III. vii. § 15 (1740), 543. That a Government should appear so weak as to suffer such an effrontuous Proceeding to run on to this Height.

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  Hence Effrontuously adv.

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a. 1734.  North, Lives (1826), II. 127. To hear his decrees most brutishly and effrontuously arraigned. Ibid. (1740) Examen, I. i. 23.

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