outwent
Americanverb
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According to Baillie, also, the Baptists outwent even the Brownists in the power in church matters they gave to women.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
By his marriages Home far outwent such famous charlatans as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the mysterious Saint Germain the deathless.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
His religious sympathies, however, outwent all sectarian limits.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe
The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
She sprang to greet him with an eagerness that outwent all shyness.
From Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
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