outwent
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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But the ardor of his mind was such that he outwent his authors.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
It was not so in the sixteenth, when Italy hardly yet fell behind, and Spain and England far outwent her: nor, according to any just estimate, in the seventeenth.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.
From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William
And already, in independent judgment on the traditional doctrines of the Church, he not only kept pace with Luther but even outwent him.
From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius
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