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Webster 1913 Edition
Outscorn
Out-scorn′
,Verb.
T.
To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Outscorn
OUTSCORN'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
outscorn
outscorn
English
Verb
outscorn (third-person singular simple present outscorns, present participle outscorning, simple past and past participle outscorned)
- (transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise.
- 2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “Kitchen Tales”, in New York Times:
- “That’s a bit like asking a man to subject himself to his own Freudian analysis,” he said, and then ventured this answer: “I guess I am Lear and the kitchen is my heath, wherein I strive to outscorn the to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.”
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