1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxi. 583 And for the outreaching of abhominations, there shalbe desolation vnto the end.

1842 Ladies' Repository Feb. 56/2 In him we ever remark the full mind, not in its tendency to innate expansion alone, but in its outreachings to relative science.

1855 ‘F. Fern’ Ruth Hall xxix. 111 Oh God! the consciousness that would come! the frantic out-reaching of the arms to clasp—a vain shadow!

1902 A. T. Mahan Retrospect & Prospect iv. 111 This outreaching of an imperialistic arm by all the greater nations..constitutes..the motive to a closer union.

1940 M. C. Otto Human Enterprise xii. 354 The western world passed under the control of a religious organization which for a dozen centuries drew to itself the aspirational outreachings of all who lived in the West.

1976 P. Green Let. 16 Mar. in L. G. Avery Southern Life (1994) x. 688 I count all these as generous and kind-hearted, well, yes, loving obituary outreachings.

1853 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Feb. 59 This eager and outreaching personal force which stirs within us.

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xiv. 405 The symmetry and outlines of the Tree of Life, with its outreaching branches.

1929 H. W. Dresser Outl. Psychol. Relig. iv. 63 Prayer as an outreaching or uplifting activity thus opens a way.

1972 Science 26 May 855/1 Certainly strong, outreaching, and complete fertility-control programs are desirable.

1996 P. Lewis Seeing through Mother Goose Tales 113 The outcome of this expansive movement positions the king as a kind of outreaching magnet, drawing the components of his world into face-to-face contact.