Usually means: Oppose or resist something firmly.
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  1. set one's face against: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. set one's face against, set one's face against: Collins English Dictionary
  3. set one's face against, set ones face against: Dictionary.com
  4. set one's face against: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (set one's face against)

verb:  (chiefly UK) To oppose strenuously; to determine not to do or accept.


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