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Definition of Outweary
1. v. t. To weary out.
Definition of Outweary
1. Verb. (transitive) To weary out. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outweary
1. to surpass in wearying [v -RIED, -RYING, -RIES] - See also: wearying
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outweary
Literary usage of Outweary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... Since the sun veiled his vision of gladness: Sorrow be banished, for sorrow
is dreary; Sorrow and gloom but outweary the weary. ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"FROM "SAINT PAUL" Oft shall that flesh imperil and outweary Soul that would stay
it in the straiter scope. Oft shall the chill day and the even dreary Force ..."
3. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"If the efforts of the Quakers cannot obtain " the olive branch of toleration, we
bless the providence of God, resolving by patience to outweary persecution, ..."
4. The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, Theodore Chickering Williams (1908)
"O'er the long reaches of the winding flood Their sturdy oars outweary the slow
course Of night and day. Fair groves of changeful green Arch o'er their ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"A rage stung in me—a resolve to outweary my evil destiny by endurance. Minute by
minute I would bear what minute after minute should inflict ; and I shut ..."
6. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... flood Their sturdy oars outweary the slow course Of night and day. Fair groves
of changeful green Arch o'er their passage, and they seem to cleave Green ..."
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