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Definition of Outwearing
1. outwear [v] - See also: outwear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwearing
Literary usage of Outwearing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... 341 Orderly ranged by the wall they stood till Odysseus came, Full many a woe
outwearing returning home to his house. Thereto were the folding-doors, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"But she—she has lived her life to the full with nervous thrill outwearing a feeble
frame. She is glad of it. She protests vehemently that she has not sinned ..."
3. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"Proudly thou scorn'st my world-outwearing rhymes, And murder'st Virtue with thy
coy disdain ! And though in youth, my youth untimely perish, ..."
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