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c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 339 He meened so myche bi hise bifore rehercid wordis, thouȝ he not alle hem out spake.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 3814 (MED) Whan þe word is out spoken And þe soun awey is cropen, It vanissheþ in þe eir away And no lenger it dure may.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 49 in Poems The praise you pleas'd (great prince) on me to spend Was all out-spoken when you stil'ed me Friend.

a1765 E. Young Compl. Wks. (1854) I. 125 Ambition's boundless appetite out-speaks The verdict of its shame.

1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xii. 231 A love is imaged in the sky, Too great to be outspoken.

1890 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 268/2 Midst plans for pleasure-seeking, I found myself outspeaking, As if in purest mischief:—‘Oh, how I envy you!’

a1911 F. E. W. Harper Vashti in Compl. Poems (1988) 100 Then bitterly outspoke the King, Through purple lips of wrath ‘What shall be done to her who dares To cross your monarch's path?’

1929 P. Landis tr. Four Famous Greek Plays 10 Such words of doom, mingled with fortunate things, Calchas outspake, touching our race of kings.

1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 357 Whose Graces doe as farre out-speake your Fame, As Fame doth silence.

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i. 356 Why, this indeed is Physick: and out speakes The knowledge of cheape drugs. View more context for this quotation

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 128 His Treasure,..I finde at such proud Rate, that it out-speakes Possession of a Subiect. View more context for this quotation

a1645 W. Browne Whole Wks. (1868) 343 In thy Name there is a Tombe, If the world can giue it Roome; For a Vere, & Herberts wyfe Outspeakes Tombes, out-liues all lyfe.

a1750 A. Hill Liberia Watch'd in Wks. (1753) 362 When grief is true, no words its force can paint, A silent sorrow far outspeaks complaint!

1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 466/1 So deeply had England's faith been anchored into the tenacity of Nelson. The fall of the funds when the victory was announced outspoke a thousand monuments.

1658 A. Cokayne Trappolin i. ii, in Small Poems 434 Admired Princess, you out-speak me much, But never shall out-love me.

1668 Earl of Orrery Henry V iv. l.400 I'le give her then such Characters of thee As shall out-speak what thou hast said of me.

1750 W. Shirley Edward Black Prince v. i. 71 Nor can the Voice of Fame, however loud, Out-speak the Merit of your matchless Deeds.

1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cxxi. 143 What, will the prince outspeak the voice That pierced to Lazarus in his grave?

1914 N. Gale Born Dumb in Coll. Poems 136 Ah, dearest husband, but the child is dumb! The lamb outspeaks him, and the day-old thrush.

1989 P. Rawlinson Price too High viii. 71 He outspoke and outsmarted his colleagues.

1998 Jrnl. Politics 60 449 Evidence from panel 5 supports expectations about gender because senators do outspeak the female panel members.

a1788 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Conscience, thou Voice of God in Poet. Wks. (1868) 417 Thy voice outspeaks, and strikes us dumb.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 37 And now outspake the Corporal.

1869 P. H. Hayne Southern Amaranth 441 From whose ‘golden mouth’, (Fit well-spring for a World in drouth,) Outspeaks the Shakspeare of the South!

1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell (1882) ii. x. 167 There heart and tongue outspake of the true north, That for his caitiff sake should not be moved Nor alter from its faith though he were cant.

a1930 S. Image Poems (1932) 85 With vision profounder far outspoke God's saint From the fair Umbrian highland to men's souls.