outsounding

English

Verb

outsounding

1. present participle and gerund of outsound
   • 1848, Peter Hamilton Myers, The First of the Knickerbockers, page 52:

     He met the beautiful Effie—each unknown to the other— rendered her some trifling courtesy, and returned to his books to find her sunny features upon every page, and to hear the melody of that one remembered tone outsounding all the grave voices of Antiquity.

   • 1859, Sir Isaac Pitman, Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, volume 18, page 341:

     The savants fall into long treatises to know whether these mysterious roots were verbs, or pronouns, whether a vowel could be a root or not, whether the consonant ought to be onsonnding or outsounding.

   • 1911, Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 81, page 277:

     Her lullabies, outsounding battle tones,
     Outlingering Iliads, brought unbroken rest.

Noun

outsounding (countable and uncountable, plural outsoundings)

1. (rare) A sounding out
   • 1920, Christ Church, Philadelphia:

     And it is not too much to say that its outsoundings and reverberations went into all the seventeen states of the precious Union that God 's providence had blessed us with.

   • 2013, Christine Murray, Cycles, page 37:

     Her wood-clattery heels sound
     against the stones at the gate.
     Against a cluster of coppered leaves;
     their outsoundings, a filigree.

Anagrams

• sounding out