outsparkle
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]outsparkle (third-person singular simple present outsparkles, present participle outsparkling, simple past and past participle outsparkled)
- To exceed in sparkling.
- Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.
- 1850 January, D.E.N., “The 'Thousand Islands'”, in The Knickerbacker, volume 35umber=1passage=It seems necessary to hold up to men's minds, apart from Holy Writ, something that may outsparkle the gilded lucre that so exclusively controls the energies of our times.:
- 2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures:
- I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond.
- 2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma:
- Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.
- (poetic) To sparkle outwards.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
- a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem.
- 1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional:
- Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias?
- 1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19:
- A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death.
References
[edit]- “outsparkle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.