Outsounding

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sounding out countable, rare, uncountable

    "And it is not too much to say that its outsoundings and reverberations went into all the seventeen states of the precious Union that God 's providence had blessed us with."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of outsound form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "He met the beautiful Effie—each unknown to the other— rendered her some trifling courtesy, and returned to his books to find her sunny features upon every page, and to hear the melody of that one remembered tone outsounding all the grave voices of Antiquity."

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"He met the beautiful Effie—each unknown to the other— rendered her some trifling courtesy, and returned to his books to find her sunny features upon every page, and to hear the melody of that one remembered tone outsounding all the grave voices of Antiquity."

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