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Definition of Outdoing
1. outdo [v] - See also: outdo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdoing
Literary usage of Outdoing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Speaking: Principles and Practice by Irvah Lester Winter (1912)
"outdoing MRS. PARTINGTON From a speech published in Brewer's " The World's Best
Orations," Vol. DC, Ferd. P. Kaiser, St. Louis, Chicago, publisher BY SIDNEY ..."
2. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis by Abraham Arden Brill (1921)
"From the mechanism of sense in nonsense we will proceed to "outdoing" ... It is
the mechanism of representing by the opposite, or the mechanism of outdoing. ..."
3. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"Yes, outdoing; for I do not remember in any regular blank verse poem of Milton's,
nor do I find in Mr. Bridges' Milton's Prosody, a line really analogous to ..."
4. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of by Colley Cibber (1740)
"... outdoing.—A moft vile Jingle, I grant it! You may well ask.me, ... outdoing,
was fure to follow it. The provident Wags knew, that Decies repetita pla- ..."
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