outnight

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English

Etymology

out- +‎ night

Verb

outnight (third-person singular simple present outnights, present participle outnighting, simple past and past participle outnighted)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.
    • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
      I would outnight you, did nobody come:
      But hark, I hear the footing of a man.
    • 1935, The Indian Forester (volume 61, page 358)
      The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."
    • Amy Lowell
      "In such a night–" she laid the book aside,
      She could outnight the poet by thinking back.
      In such a night she came here as a bride.

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