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Outblossom

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The best that is produced (by something); culmination.

    "Florence herself is the outblossom of modern Italian civilization."

Verb
  1. 1
    To blossom more beautifully than, or with more flowers than.

    "Fifty a contemptible Age! Not at all, a very faſhionable Age I think—I aſſure you, I know very conſiderable Beaus, that ſet a good Face upon Fifty,. Fifty! I have ſeen Fifty in a ſide Box by Candle-light, out-bloſſom Five and Twenty."

  2. 2
    To bloom in spite of.

    "I hear in her poems something that will outblossom hell itself and help us all to turn it back into earth again."

  3. 3
    To blossom forth; to emerge into a state of blossoming; to flower.

    "Be strong! the wind to the shorn lamb is tempered; The way, though weary, teacheth to repose ; Life, though with bitter memories hampered, Will yet outblossom as the summer rose.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From out- + blossom.

Etymology 2

From out- + blossom.

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