downfacing

Verb

downface (third-person singular simple present downfaces, present participle downfacing, simple past and past participle downfaced)

1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To persist in an assertion in the face of opposition.
   • He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.1897, Bram Stoker, “Mina Murray’s Journal”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter VI, page 71
2. (transitive) To disparage; to cause to lose face.
   • Shucks, I didn't want fer them furriners to downface me and, sartin sure, didn't want my kinspeople to be shamed afore them.1958, June E. Reed, Jest Olga, page 13

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