outpassion
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outpassion (third-person singular simple present outpassions, present participle outpassioning, simple past and past participle outpassioned)
- (transitive, rare) To be more passionate than; to surpass in passion.
- 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 74:
- […] He fain had calcined all Northumbria / To one black ash, but that they patriot passion / Siding with our great Council against Tostig, / Out-passion'd his!