outromance

English

Etymology

out- +‎ romance

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To exceed in romantic character.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     their real sufferings outromanced the fictions of many errant adventures

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outromance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)