Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of outsound
Her lullabies, outsounding battle tones, Outlingering Iliads, brought unbroken rest.
1911, Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 81, page 2772 more examples
He met the beautiful Effie—each unknown to the other— rendered her some trifling courtesy, and returned to his books to find her sunny features upon every page, and to hear the melody of that one remembered tone outsounding all the grave voices of Antiquity.
1848, Peter Hamilton Myers, The First of the Knickerbockers, page 52The savants fall into long treatises to know whether these mysterious roots were verbs, or pronouns, whether a vowel could be a root or not, whether the consonant ought to be onsonnding or outsounding.
1859, Sir Isaac Pitman, Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, volume 18, page 341
plural outsoundings
- countablerareuncountableA sounding out
Her wood-clattery heels sound against the stones at the gate. Against a cluster of coppered leaves; their outsoundings, a filigree.
2013, Christine Murray, Cycles, page 371 more example
And it is not too much to say that its outsoundings and reverberations went into all the seventeen states of the precious Union that God 's providence had blessed us with.
1920, Christ Church, Philadelphia
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