Meanings
present singular third person outbrings · participle present outbringing · participle past outbrought · past outbrought
- transitiveTo bring out; deliver; utter; express.
We utter or outbring acts; the word of God produced creatures.
1901, Anne Judith Penny, An introduction to the study of Jacob Boehme's writings4 more examples
All these, with many more, she deftly wrought Into gay wreaths and posies passing fair; Then from the inner sacristy outbrought Vases of simplest clay, but shapes most rare, And round the statue's base, as quick as thought, [...]
1873, Alfred Austin, Madonna's childWhose breath of mouth divine, Of old from the deep gulf outbrought me, And who all beautiful outwrought me.
1874, Thomas Bruce, The summer queenAnd then Sir Launcelot said: Now have good day, my lord the king, for wit you well ye win no worship at these walls; and if I would my knights outbring, there should many a man die.
1900, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: Volume 4Tea, seeds of crescive sympathy Were sown by those more excellent than he, Long known, though long contemned till then — The gods of men in amity. Souls have grown seers, and thought outbrings The mournful many-sidedness of things With foes as friends, enfeebling ires And fury-fires by gaingiving!
1914, Louis Freeland Post, Alice Thacher Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A journal of democracy: Volume 17
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishūtbrengan“to bring out”
- Middle Englishoutbringen
- Englishoutbring
From Middle English outbringen, outebringen, from Old English ūtbrengan (“to bring out”), equivalent to out- + bring. Cognate with Dutch uitbrengen (“to release, launch, bring out, utter”), German ausbringen (“to propose, give, space out”), Swedish utbringa (“to propose”).
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