outnight
English
Verb
outnight (third-person singular simple present outnights, present participle outnighting, simple past and past participle outnighted)
- (transitive) To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- I would outnight you, did nobody come:
But hark, I hear the footing of a man.
- I would outnight you, did nobody come:
- 1935, The Indian Forester (volume 61, page 358)
- The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."
- Amy Lowell
- "In such a night–" she laid the book aside,
She could outnight the poet by thinking back.
In such a night she came here as a bride.
- "In such a night–" she laid the book aside,
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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