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Definition of Outgrowing
1. outgrow [v] - See also: outgrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrowing
Literary usage of Outgrowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Training the Girl: By William A. McKeever by William Arch McKeever (1914)
"... own Mary should be the best dressed girl in the school, or even so conspicuously
adorned that envious eyes might fall upon her. outgrowing HER CLOTHES ..."
2. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"In addition to certain other structures, this outgrowing tail includes the nerve
tube and the notochord; and in some forms contains the only muscles ..."
3. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians by William Wilberforce (1835)
"We thus mistake merely outgrowing our vices, or relinquishing them from some
change in our worldly circumstances, for a thorough, or at least for a ..."
4. The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1895)
"Born to Fight and Strive, War is outgrowing its Original Object and is Teaching
Harmony without Competition—Differentiation a Moral Law of Nature—By it, ..."
5. My Creed by Minot Judson Savage (1887)
"outgrowing THE OLD BELIEFS. EVERY religion implies a theology; that is, a scheme
or system of thought underlying it, out of which it springs and which in ..."
6. My Creed by Minot Judson Savage (1897)
"outgrowing THE OLD BELIEFS. EVERY religion implies a theology; that is, a scheme
or system of thought underlying it, out of which it springs and which in ..."
7. Miracles and Supernatural Religion by James Morris Whiton (1903)
"The present outgrowing of this conception. IT is barely forty years since that
beloved and fearless Christian scholar, Dean Stanley, spoke thus of the ..."
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