outwatch

American  

[out-woch] / ˌaʊtˈwɒtʃ /

verb (used with object)

1. to outdo or surpass in watching.

2. to watch, or maintain a vigil, until the end of.

   The mourners had outwatched the night.

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Etymology

Origin of outwatch

First recorded in 1620–30; out- + watch

Example Sentences

Outwatch, owt-wawch′, v.t. to watch longer than.

From Project Gutenberg

His followers in-510- the barge or villa, his valet-de-chambre and butler, his lackeys who outwatch the night, get paid.

From Project Gutenberg

This is man's guise to please himself, when he Shall not see one thing of his pleasant things, Nor with outwatch of many travailings Come to be eased of the least pain he hath For all his love and all his foolish wrath And all the heavy manner of his mind.

From Project Gutenberg

All night her locks are wet with dew, Her eyes outwatch the moon.

From Project Gutenberg

Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, 85 Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold 90 The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or underground, Whose power hath a true consent 95 With planet or with element.

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