outlustre

English

Etymology

out- +‎ lustre

Verb

outlustre (third-person singular simple present outlustres, present participle outlustring, simple past and past participle outlustred)

1. (poetic, transitive) To surpass in brightness or lustre; to outshine.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     that diamond of yours outlustres many

   • a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Heather was Blooming:

     Her plumage outlustred the pride o' the spring.

   • 1869, John Edward Howell, Poems: Volume 1, page 123:

     So she has dreams, and in her dreams, / Joy to outlustre joy by day […]