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Definition of Outwits
1. outwit [v] - See also: outwit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwits
Literary usage of Outwits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade (1904)
"A WOMAN outwits TWO MEN CHAPTER XIX A WOMAN outwits TWO MEN " Ay," said Hope, "
that's the same specious argument you tempted me with fifteen years ago. ..."
2. History of New Netherland by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1855)
"... offers protection to all runaways from New Haven—Comments on such
proceeding—Stuyvesant writes to Massachusetts and Virginia—outwits Governor ..."
3. Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler (1921)
"A third version (c), a Bicol story entitled "Marcela outwits the King," narrated
by Gregorio Frondoso of Camarines, resembles closely the ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... CASANOVA outwits THE INQUISITION. (From "The Escapes of Casanova and Latude
from Prison'': translation of Clara ..."
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