outlustre

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ lustre.

Verb

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outlustre (third-person singular simple present outlustres, present participle outlustring, simple past and past participle outlustred)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
    • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
      that diamond of yours outlustres many
    • a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Heather was Blooming:
      Her plumage outlustred the pride o' the spring.
    • 1869, John Edward Howell, Poems: Volume 1, page 123:
      So she has dreams, and in her dreams, / Joy to outlustre joy by day []