outname

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ name.

Verb

outname (third-person singular simple present outnames, present participle outnaming, simple past and past participle outnamed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exceed in naming or describing.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To exceed in fame or degree.
   • c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iv:

     And found out one to out-name thy other faults.

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