outblossoming

Verb

outblossom (third-person singular simple present outblossoms, present participle outblossoming, simple past and past participle outblossomed)

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.1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, pages 76–77
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.1971, Dacotah Territory - Issues 1-11, page 62
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."1857, Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume V, page 421

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