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outsoar

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[aut-sawr, -sohr] / ˌaʊtˈsɔr, -ˈsoʊr /

verb (used with object)

  1. to soar beyond.


Etymology

Origin of outsoar

First recorded in 1665–75; out- + soar


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But the show includes some masterpieces which outsoar all such generalizations.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's the sting,— That I, an insect of to-day, outsoar The reverend worm, nobility!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 by Various

Love is to these singers a thing so serious that however high they fly, they do not outsoar what is to them the atmosphere of truth.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

Names higher than his outshine it and outsoar, But none save one should memory cherish more: Praise and thanksgiving crown the names above, But him we give the gift he gave us, love.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne

III Shelley, lyric lord of England's lordliest singers, here first heard Ring from lips of poets crowned and dead the Promethean word Whence his soul took fire, and power to outsoar the sunward-soaring bird.

From Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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