outsweeten

verb

outsweeten

verb

Etymology From out- + sweeten.

1

To surpass in sweetness.

  • The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Outsweeten'd not thy breath1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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