outplead

present singular third person outpleads · participle present outpleading · participle past outpleaded · past outpleaded

1. transitiveTo surpass in pleading; to plead more successfully than.

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   There were some strokes in this speech which perhaps would have offended Mr Allworthy, had he strictly attended to it; but he had now got one of his fingers into the infant's hand, which, by its gentle pressure, seeming to implore his assistance, had certainly out-pleaded the eloquence of Mrs Deborah, had it been ten times greater than it was.

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling