c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 353 O lorde Jhesu..þou..schewist and bryngest oute in to þe liȝte of knowynge þy soþfastnesse with the swete sauoure of thy oute-spekynge.

1845 R. C. Trench Fitness Holy Script. ii. 35 These may be deep out-speakings of the spiritual needs of man.

1865 Sat. Rev. 29 July 136/1 Briskness and outspeaking and brevity are virtues which go a long way in buying and selling.

1892 Athenæum 8 Oct. 482/1 When a man carries out-speaking to such a pass as this, is he not apt to become a..discordant thread in the..web of modern society?

1922 H. S. Canby Definitions 191 The intellectual weekly gave us..the criticism of a trend rather than a literature; of the products of a social group rather than the outspeaking of a nation.

1949 A. B. Kuhn Shadow Third Cent. xxi. 468 It might be called the informal prayer, a free spontaneous outspeaking..of the inner feelings of the individual.

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 37 (MED) It sitteth a kyng to be wele faukened, out-spekyng, clere voice havyng.

1843 T. S. Fay Hoboken I. xvii. 94 Many an innocent accused had seen himself saved from punishment by the outspeaking eloquence which asked no pay but its own pleasure in the act.

1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxvi. 431 You are for ever telling her the same thing yourself in fifty plain, out-speaking ways.

1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. 133 I have always been an outspeaking man.

1968 Punch 4 Sept. 342/2 We were in for a chunk of life in the outspeaking idiom of the raw.

1994 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 17 Mar. He was distinctly uneasy with the outspeaking and not always politically correct Whoopi Goldberg.