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▪ I. ˈoutfling, n. [out- 7.] The act of flinging out; the giving vent to bad temper or ill nature.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xlii, Deronda..could not help replying to Pash's outfling. ▪ II. outfling, v.|-ˈflɪŋ| [out- 14, 15.] trans. and intr. To fling out; fling oneself out. (poetic.) Hence outˈflinging vbl. n.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 166 The crauen Cock,..which cowardly doth run away, or from the pit out-flings. 1892Chicago Advance 3 Nov., The hand of God outflinging wide The gorgeous banner of the autumn-tide. 1894A. S. Way tr. Euripides' Tragedies I. 135 What speech in thy frenzy outflingest thou? 1896Ibid. II. 186 Through Hades' hall to thee I call, Day after day my cries outflinging. 1922Joyce Ulysses 415 Outflings my lord Stephen, giving the cry. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm v. 73 Judith thrust the words aside with a heavy movement of her hand, like the blind outflinging of a tortured beast. 1950R. Bradbury Martian Chronicles 86 If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire,..what good was life? |