English

Verb

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

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) to persist boldly in an assertion
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 6, Mina Murray's Journal

     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.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops

     Didn't I tell you? As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.