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Definition of Outboast
1. Verb. To boast better than another, to make greater claims about oneself than another makes or is able to make. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outboast
1. to surpass in boasting [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: boasting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outboast
Literary usage of Outboast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"In other words, his intellect must not overtop his character, nor his mouth
outboast the achievement of his hands; but all grace and honor, ..."
2. France by John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1898)
"For instance in an advanced constituency, two anti-clerical candidates outboast
one another of their acorn of religions observance, and one of them records ..."
3. An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians by Charles Hodge (1862)
"If they boast, I can outboast them. If they are Hebrews, so am I, &c.' The foregoing
interpretation of this passage, which assumes that Ae'yw in the first ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1849)
"... and "our most remarkable country" of the stripes and stars would swell itself
up still more, in the strain to outboast the Britishers. ..."
5. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and the State of Europe During the by Robert Vaughan (1839)
"I hear that some of the subjects of Berne, to outboast them, replied, " England
alone hath promised to lend us two millions of livres ;" which, ..."
6. Makers of the American Republic: A Series of Patriotic Lectures, by David Gregg (1896)
"His intellect must not overtop his character nor his lips outboast the achievements
of his hands. The genius of character! There is no power like that. ..."
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