outshut

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ shut

Verb[edit]

outshut (third-person singular simple present outshuts, present participle outshutting, simple past and past participle outshut)

  1. (archaic) To shut out.
    • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Lamentations of Jeremy”, in Poems, [] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: [] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, [], published 1633, →OCLC:
      When I cry out,
      He outshuts my prayer

References[edit]

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

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