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单词 out-reign
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out-reignv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈreɪn/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈreɪn/
Forms: see out- prefix and reign v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, reign v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + reign v.
transitive. To reign longer than; to reign beyond or to the end of. Also intransitive.
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society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > rule over as monarch [verb (transitive)] > longer than
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c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 169 (MED) In hir hond a wheel she bore..And this was wreten..I shal rayne, y rayne, y haue raynyd; And y owt-rayne was wreten last of al.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y2 Till they outraigned had their vtmost date.
1641 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 20 Nov. (1642) xiv. 64 Antichrist hath out-raigned him for 1600 yeares.
1698 E. Tipper On Reputation in Pilgrim's Viaticum 36 For Censure and Opinion have their swing, Ill Tongues and bad Belief out-reign a King.
1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 11 19 [Rome] governed by twelve Cæsars in succession, of whom the second Augustus, out-reigned the others.
1876 L. Blanchard Hist. Life in Poet. Wks. i. 167 Doth a lean and livid worm out-reign The crowned Napoleon in the human heat!
1993 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Jan. 46/2 Most likely Queen Elizabeth II will out-reign her illustrious predecessor [sc. Elizabeth I].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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