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out-Christianing

out-Christianing is the present participle of out-Christian.

Meaning of out-Christian

Verb

out-Christian (third-person singular simple present out-Christians, present participle out-Christianing, simple past and past participle out-Christianed)

  1. (transitive) To behave more Christianly than.
    • I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.1981, Ellis Peters, The Leper of Saint Giles, London: Head of Zeus, published 2014, →ISBN

Questions about out-Christianing

What is out-Christianing the present participle of?
Out-Christianing is the present participle of out-Christian.

Words near out-Christianing in the dictionary

  1. out-Byzantining
  2. out-chorus
  3. out-choruses
  4. out-Christian
  5. out-Christianed
  6. out-Christianing
  7. out-Christians
  8. out-clearing
  9. out-clearings
  10. out-college
  11. out-did

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-Christianing (page history and authors); out-Christian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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