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outromance

outromance verb: to exceed in romance; to be more romantic than.

Verb

outromance (third-person singular simple present outromances, present participle outromancing, simple past and past participle outromanced)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in romance; to be more romantic than.
    • their real sufferings outromanced the fictions of many errant adventures1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Forms of outromance

third-person singular presentoutromances
present participleoutromancing
past participleoutromanced
pastoutromanced

Origin of outromance

From out- + romance.

Questions about outromance

What does outromance mean?
Outromance means to exceed in romance; to be more romantic than.
What part of speech is outromance?
Outromance is a verb.
What is the past tense of outromance?
The past tense of outromance is outromanced.

Words near outromance in the dictionary

  1. outroll
  2. outrolled
  3. outrolling
  4. outrollings
  5. outrolls
  6. outromance
  7. outromanced
  8. outromances
  9. outromancing
  10. outroom
  11. outrooms

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