outnight
verbEtymology From out- + night.
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To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.
- I would outnight you, did nobody come: But hark, I hear the footing of a man.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."1935, The Indian Forester, volume 61, page 358:
1 more example
- "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.1916, Amy Lowell, Pickthorn Manor: