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Definition of Outpasses
1. outpass [v] - See also: outpass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outpasses
Literary usage of Outpasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London by Oliphant (Margaret) (1862)
"... purity of life, and richness of character, as far outpasses in promise any
youth that I have been the means of bringing unto Christ. ..."
2. Michel de Montaigne: A Biographical Study by Mary E. Lowndes (1898)
"... outpasses these in emphasis and fulness. All that we know of him too is of a
piece, and goes 20 to show a character at once stronger and more simple, ..."
3. The Musical World (1862)
"The tale of this opera outpasses the common order of trumpery to which the stage
seems now doomed. There is in it an organ- builder, who has invented a new ..."
4. English Sonnets by Living Writers by Samuel Waddington (1888)
"The stream speaks, and the endurance of the sky outpasses speech : I seek not to
discern Even what smiles for me Thy lips have stirred ; Only in Thy hand ..."
5. On the Art of Writing by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1916)
"Remember that I used this very same word "miracle" of Shakespeare, meaning again
that the total Shakespeare quite outpasses my comprehension; ..."
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