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Brazen   /brˈeɪzən/   Listen
adjective
Brazen  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
2.
Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
3.
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
Brazen age.
(a)
(Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age.
(b)
(Archaeol.) See under Bronze.
Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.



verb
Brazen  v. t.  (past & past part. brazened; pres. part. brazening)  To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through. "Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect."






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"Brazen" Quotes from Famous Books



... slave! Brazen effrontery, hypocrisy, and falsehood! We have, in the laws cited and referred to above, the formal testimony of the Legislatures of the slave states, that, 'public opinion' does pertinaciously refuse to protect the slaves; not only so, but that it does itself ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... hear it all their lives long. For then do we rejoice beyond others, rising like bright-winged insects from our lowly state to a higher life of glory and joy, which is ours for the space of three whole days. Then the august Mother, in a brazen chariot, is drawn from field to field by milk-white bulls with golden horns; then her children are gathered about her in shining yellow garments, with armlets of gold upon their arms; and with voice and instruments of forms ...
— A Crystal Age • W. H. Hudson

... those who were continually at variance with His Majesty's excise officers. There was one local worthy named Cranley, the lawless ancestor of the yeoman who had sold the piece of land to Mr. Glenthorpe, who was reported to be the most brazen smuggler in Norfolk, which was saying something, considering the greater portion of the coastal population were engaged in ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees

... Glorious Maker, all that is to thy glory, Thou sentest them also a law from heaven above, And daily showest them many tokens of great love. The brazen serpent thou gavest them for their healing, And Balaam's curse thou turned'st into a blessing. I hope thou wilt not disdain to help ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley

... his progress from Woodstock. If Warton's notion is correct, scarcely the iron cross in the pavement that marks the spot where the bishops were burned, or the solemn chamber in which they were tried, yea, scarcely Guy Fawkes's lantern, which they show you at the Bodleian, or the Brazen Nose itself, are memorials as interesting as the archway leading into the quadrangle of St. John's College, under whose carving, quaint and graceful, one now gets the lovely glimpse into the green and bloom ...
— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer


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