outnight

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verb

To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verboutnight (third-person singular simple present outnights, present participle outnighting, simple past and past participle outnighted)

present singular third person outnights · participle present outnighting · participle past outnighted · past outnighted

  1. transitiveTo surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.

    The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."

    1935, The Indian Forester, volume 61, page 358
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    I would outnight you, did nobody come: But hark, I hear the footing of a man.

    c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

    "In such a night–" she laid the book aside, She could outnight the poet by thinking back. In such a night she came here as a bride.

    1916, Amy Lowell, Pickthorn Manor

Origin

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