outnight
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outnight (third-person singular simple present outnights, present participle outnighting, simple past and past participle outnighted)
- (transitive) To surpass in telling tales of nights one has experienced.
-  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):- I would outnight you, did nobody come:
 But hark, I hear the footing of a man.
 
-  1935, The Indian Forester, volume 61, page 358:- The Peinti could outnight the heartiest of London's "Bright Young People."
 
-  1916, Amy Lowell, Pickthorn Manor:- "In such a night–" she laid the book aside,
 She could outnight the poet by thinking back.
 In such a night she came here as a bride.
 
 
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