outname
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[edit]outname (third-person singular simple present outnames, present participle outnaming, simple past and past participle outnamed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To exceed in naming or describing.
- (obsolete, transitive) To exceed in fame or degree.
- c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iv:
- And found out one to out-name thy other faults.