Definitions | outrecuidance |
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- (archaic) presumption, Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
- 1819: "It is full time," said De Bracy, "that the of these peasants should be restrained by some striking example." " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Etymology: From Old (and modern) French French, outrecuidance, from outre + cuider "think", from Latin cogitare.
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