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Definition of Outdone
1. outdo [v] - See also: outdo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdone
Literary usage of Outdone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seneca's Morals by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1818)
"IT passes in the world for a generous and magnificent saying, that—" It ua shame
for a man to be outdone in courtesy:" and it IB worth the while to examine ..."
2. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... of her parents and the Duke she was at last beginning to nerve herself for
the doom of the covenant, JONAH outdone. and prepare for the hated marriage. ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... a governor at hand to" do it or I had to do it my- Mtt" Perfectly fearless,
this man. PUTNAM outdone. He rode down the perpendicular path in the rocks, ..."
4. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"FOX IS "outdone" BY MR. BUZZARD. "El' I don't run inter no mistakes," remarked
Uncle Remus, as the little boy came tripping in to see him after supper, ..."
5. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"290 Her fellow saints with busy care will look For her blest name in fate's
eternal book; And, pleas'd to be outdone, with joy will see Numberless virtues, ..."
6. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, C M Westmacott, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank (1805)
"... at laft, doom'd by capricious fate To kindle pipes, or curl fome crazy crown.
THE LONDON ADVERTISEMENT-MAKERS outdone. [From the Morning Chronicle. ..."
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