outromance

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ romance.

Verb

outromance (third-person singular simple present outromances, present participle outromancing, simple past and past participle outromanced)

1. (transitive) To exceed in romance; to be more romantic than.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     their real sufferings outromanced the fictions of many errant adventures

References

• “outromance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.