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Definition of Outliving
1. outlive [v] - See also: outlive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outliving
Literary usage of Outliving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Still, still these slopes, 'tis clear. Our Gipsy-Scholar haunts, outliving sky.
thee ! Fields where soft sheep from cag-:> ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"You know the dread I have had of outliving my faculties ; of that I trust there
is now no great probability, as my body decays so fast My life has been a ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: With the Precedent by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1717)
"... and had a great addition by his Wife, another Daughter, and Heir of the Earl
of Shrewsbury, which he enjoy'd during his life, fhe outliving him: but ..."
4. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters by Horace Walpole, John Wright (1842)
"It is like a mortal distemper in myself; for can amusements amuse, if there is
but a glimpse, a vision, of outliving one's friends? ..."
5. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"This he enjoyed by outliving Mr. Edward Harley. His published writings, besides
occasional sermons, are An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 8vo, 1745; ..."
6. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters by Horace Walpole, John Wright (1842)
"It is like a mortal distemper in myself; for can amusements amuse, if there is
but a glimpse, a vision, of outliving one's friends? ..."
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