Outdin
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To din more loudly than, make a louder noise than (someone or something).
"1664, James Howell, Florus Hungaricus, London: Hen[ry] Marsh, Book 2, p. 49, […] divine Providence was pleased by these frequent and ruinous losses and slaughters, upon the neck of one another, to bring these barbarous Huns to an humble sense of their calamitous and ruinous condition, and by that prepare and soften their minds to the Reception of the great Evangelicall truth, against whose Innocent Doctrine, the applauses of their Triumphs and the noising loud Fame of their puissance and successe had out-dinn’d the Trumpets of the Prince of Peace […]"
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More examples"1664, James Howell, Florus Hungaricus, London: Hen[ry] Marsh, Book 2, p. 49, […] divine Providence was pleased by these frequent and ruinous losses and slaughters, upon the neck of one another, to bring these barbarous Huns to an humble sense of their calamitous and ruinous condition, and by that prepare and soften their minds to the Reception of the great Evangelicall truth, against whose Innocent Doctrine, the applauses of their Triumphs and the noising loud Fame of their puissance and successe had out-dinn’d the Trumpets of the Prince of Peace […]"
Etymology
From out- + din.
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