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Definition of Outgrown
1. outgrow [v] - See also: outgrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgrown
Literary usage of Outgrown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism by William Cunningham (1908)
"... AD1689 —1776. but the country had outgrown them, and Pitt was well advised in
discarding them and reverting to the Tory tradition, as to the benefit of ..."
2. Half-hours with the Best American Authors by Charles Morris (1886)
"outgrown. Nay, you wrong her, my friend ; she's not fickle ; her love she has
simply outgrown: One can read the whole matter, translating her heart by the ..."
3. Poetry of America: Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876 by William James Linton (1878)
"Of a beautiful city that lies afar; And there, sometime, I shall drop the mask,
And be shapely and fair as others are! outgrown. NAY, you wrong her, ..."
4. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts by Clyde Augustus Duniway (1906)
"freedom by requiring it to have a " customary " license from the secretary of
the province; but, the press having outgrown its swaddling clothes, ..."
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