outbring

O1U1T1B3R1I1N1G2

verb

To bring out; deliver; utter; express.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verboutbring (third-person singular simple present outbrings, present participle outbringing, simple past and past participle outbrought)

present singular third person outbrings · participle present outbringing · participle past outbrought · past outbrought

  1. 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 writings
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    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 child

    Whose breath of mouth divine, Of old from the deep gulf outbrought me, And who all beautiful outwrought me.

    1874, Thomas Bruce, The summer queen

    And 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 4

    Tea, 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

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Origin

  1. Old Englishūtbrengan“to bring out”
  2. Middle Englishoutbringen
  3. 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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