1569–70 Royal Proclam. 4 Mar. With clamors and out~cryinges [they] haue accursed the sayde Leonarde Dacres.

1637 Ld. Wariston Diary (1911) I. 265 Thair rayse..sik ane outcrying quhat be the people's murmuring, mourning, rayling.

a1698 W. Row Contin. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) 548 The disarming of the militia..occasioned much outcrying.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxi. 204 The fraternity below, after much irregular outcrying, had at length joined all their instruments and voices.

1890 Daily News 3 Nov. 6/1 There was more hooting and ribald outcrying.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) x. 393 Certain groups of traders started the pandemonium again, by the wild outcrying of their offers.

2002 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 3 Oct. b1 The outcrying of the public. Did it help?

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 85^v If you awake him with your out-crying prayers.

1626 R. Bernard Isle of Man ii. 219 Touching this impatient ingratefull outcrying fellow Pouerty.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. xii. 195 Under the tomahawk and the knife, like helpless and outcrying children.

1890 Home Missionary (U.S.) July 121 A great and outcrying need for some..missionaries.

1914 B. Jarrett S. Antonio & Medieval Econ. vi. 56 Individual cases of starvation or out-crying want.

a1946 J. K. Baxter Coll. Poems (1980) ii. 45 The carved cliffs and the great outcrying surf With currents round the rocks and the birds rising.

1997 Denver Westword (Nexis) 27 Mar. Many of the members of this outcrying faction of educators do not feel they are responsible for earning their right to teach through a devotion to excellence.