downface

down +‎ face

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 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     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.

• face down, face-down, facedown