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Outrance

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Ou`trance´    (Ō`träNs´)
n.1.The utmost or last extremity.
Combat à outrance
a fight to the end, or to the death.


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The battle will be a l outrance, sith the said offence was of a deadly sort, admitting of no comPosition.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
But if the shield was touched with the sharp end of the lance, the combat was understood to be at outrance, that is, the knights were to fight with sharp weapons, as in actual battle.
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