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Definition of Outwaiting
1. outwait [v] - See also: outwait
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwaiting
Literary usage of Outwaiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... he waited with inexhaustible patience, outwaiting President Davis and the
Southern Confederacy, till the time when their fire-eaters should get out of ..."
2. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Perspective by Anthony Arnold (1985)
"Its broad strategy has been to wear down external opposition by simply outwaiting
it, exploiting the fickleness of world public interest in a little-known ..."
3. Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the by William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1888)
"Then, like a glittering dream, ye fade and pass Into the gathering wealth of
Summer skies; Fair fragrant clover and the crested grass, outwaiting wintry ..."
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