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Definition of à outrance in English: à outranceadverb ɑː ˈuːtrɒ̃sa utʀɑ̃sˌä o͞oˈträns literary To the death or the very end. 〈诗/文〉至死，直到最后 殊死的决斗。 Example sentencesExamples - The author explains didactically but also with discreet and captivating British humour what she means by Desperado literature: she means a literary space where all writers use à outrance all literary tricks ever devised, in order to be different, to shock at all costs, to become their own trend.
- Now anyone but a contrarian might suppose that Verdun and Vichy were at opposite poles, the first being resistance à outrance to foreign domination and the second being craven acquiescence in same.
- And, they believed that it had to be taken seriously, and fought à outrance, with everything they had.
- Wheeling away from a committed charge was the mass equivalent of dodging a punch, and in Crusade engagements the Turks would often frustrate the European desire for battle à outrance.
- As it turned out, it came at the beginning of a rhetorical guerre à outrance over the reputation of the former pope which, like some grim battle of attrition, has not abated even after 40 years.
OriginFrench, literally 'to the utmost'. Rhymesadvance, Afrikaans, chance, dance, enhance, entrance, faience, France, glance, lance, mischance, outdance, perchance, prance, Provence, stance, trance Definition of à outrance in US English: à outranceadverbˌä o͞oˈträns literary To the death or the very end. 〈诗/文〉至死，直到最后 殊死的决斗。 Example sentencesExamples - Now anyone but a contrarian might suppose that Verdun and Vichy were at opposite poles, the first being resistance à outrance to foreign domination and the second being craven acquiescence in same.
- And, they believed that it had to be taken seriously, and fought à outrance, with everything they had.
- Wheeling away from a committed charge was the mass equivalent of dodging a punch, and in Crusade engagements the Turks would often frustrate the European desire for battle à outrance.
- The author explains didactically but also with discreet and captivating British humour what she means by Desperado literature: she means a literary space where all writers use à outrance all literary tricks ever devised, in order to be different, to shock at all costs, to become their own trend.
- As it turned out, it came at the beginning of a rhetorical guerre à outrance over the reputation of the former pope which, like some grim battle of attrition, has not abated even after 40 years.
OriginFrench, literally ‘to the utmost’. |