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outcanting

outcanting is the present participle and gerund of outcant.

Meaning of outcant

Verb

outcant (third-person singular simple present outcants, present participle outcanting, simple past and past participle outcanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To surpass in canting; to use more jargon than.
    • I paſs o'er all thoſe Confeſſors and Martyrs
      Who live like S—tt—n, or who die like Charters,
      Out-cant old Eſdras, or out-drink his Heir,
      Out-uſure Jews, or Iriſhmen out-ſwear; [...]1735, Alexander Pope, “The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 47, lines 35–38

Questions about outcanting

What is outcanting the present participle and gerund of?
Outcanting is the present participle and gerund of outcant.

Words near outcanting in the dictionary

  1. outcamped
  2. outcamping
  3. outcamps
  4. outcant
  5. outcanted
  6. outcanting
  7. outcants
  8. outcap
  9. outcaper
  10. outcapered
  11. outcapering

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