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outˈshine, v.
[out- 18, 14.]
1. trans. To excel in shining or brightness; to shine brighter than.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. ix. 21 And all their tops bright glistering with gold, That seemed to out-shine the dimmed skye. 1667Milton P.L. i. 86 How changed From him, who in the happy Realms of Light..didst outshine Myriads. 1820Shelley Vision Sea 74 Those eyes where the radiance of fear Is outshining the meteors. 1899Swinburne in 19th Cent. Jan. 90 With stars outshining all their suns to be.
b. fig. To surpass in splendour or excellence.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. 287 And he, all him before that cleerely did out-shine. 1712Steele Spect. No. 268 ⁋3 How few are there who do not place their Happiness in out-shining others in Pomp and Show. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 64 One magnificence outshone another, and made itself the brightest.
2. intr. To shine forth or out. poet. rare.
1878R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 11 Even the night is mine When Northern Lights outshine.
Hence outˈshining vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.1 (in sense 1); outˈshiner, one who outshines or surpasses.
1754R. O. Cambridge Intruder 16 No art, no project, no designing, No rivalship and no outshining. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clviii, This Outshining and o'erwhelming edifice [St. Peter's] Fools our fond gaze. 1864Askerdale Park I. 128 The weak young woman who had been outshone on some occasion at which she had reckoned on being the universal outshiner. |