outwill

present singular third person outwills · participle present outwilling · participle past outwilled · past outwilled

1. transitiveTo surpass in force of will.

   Even if not, Somali resolve would have still remained strong enough during World War I to outwill the British.

   2014, Noriyuki Katagiri, Adapting to Win, page 128

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   Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their ends.

   1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium