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Definition of Outlearned
1. outlearn [v] - See also: outlearn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outlearned
Literary usage of Outlearned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop (1883)
"THE sense of the world is short, — Long and various the report, — To love and be
beloved; Men and gods have not outlearned it; And, how oft soe'er they've ..."
2. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"We have outlearned the physics, and perhaps the metaphysics of the Greeks; their
knowledge of nature, in comparison with ours, was but as a genial beginning ..."
3. Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry by Adolphus Alfred Jack (1912)
"... and various the report,— To love and be beloved ; Men and gods have not
outlearned it ; And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, 'Twill not be improved. ..."
4. The Radical (1869)
"It comes.from the village school where he outlearned the teacher, and from the
solitary chamber where in secret he read the words of wise men. ..."
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