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outweigh, v.|aʊtˈweɪ|
[out- 18, 18 b.]
1. trans. To exceed in weight; fig. to be too heavy or onerous for.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 45 Then must we rate the cost of the Erection, Which if we finde out-weighes Ability, What do we then, but draw a-new the Modell In fewer offices? 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 382 The taile of an African weather outweigheth the body of a good Calfe,..according unto Leo Africanus. 1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 76 The weight..will outweigh it, and draw the beam of the lever down. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 171 Weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other.
2. To exceed in value, importance, or influence.
1632Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age i. i. Wks. 1874 III. 361 Hate will out-way my loue. a1703Burkitt On N.T. Acts xxiii. 11 The presence of God with his suffering servants outweighs all their discouragements. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. viii. 297 This variation..cannot be allowed to outweigh the concurrent testimony. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxxiii. 582 With you, position outweighs honesty. |