outsweeten

English

Etymology

out- +‎ sweeten

Verb

outsweeten (third-person singular simple present outsweetens, present participle outsweetening, simple past and past participle outsweetened)

1. (transitive) To surpass in sweetness.
   • 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 IV, scene i]:

     The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,
     Outsweeten'd not thy breath

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outsweeten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)