outwent
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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It was not so in the sixteenth, when Italy hardly yet fell behind, and Spain and England far outwent her: nor, according to any just estimate, in the seventeenth.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.
From His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton
She sprang to greet him with an eagerness that outwent all shyness.
From Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
If he found himself mistaken, he could not humble himself enough,—but far outwent, in his contrition, what was due to those whom he had offended.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
In his play he outwent all his comrades in throwing balls, and in running and leaping and putting stones and racing horses.”
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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