- past tense form of outgo.
outwent
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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A troop of infantry, whose dapper costume outwent itself in the last touch of bright green gloves, dazzled by, and then came a miscellany of maskers.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
And he unknit the peace-strings from about Boardcleaver, and drew him forth so that a clear humming noise went forth into the sunlit air, and spurred on so hard that he outwent every man there.
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
The zest, the fun, the excitement Sigurd infused into our human humdrum outwent all expectation.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
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 Fuller, Margaret
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 Barton, William Eleazar
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