outdoing
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]outdoing
- present participle and gerund of outdo
Noun
[edit]outdoing (plural outdoings)
- The act by which one person outdoes another.
- 1805, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals (quoting a correspondent, "Dangle")
- It appears to me to be saying next to nothing, when they say that such a performer is capital, another inferior, that one has outdone his usual outdoings, and that another has outdone the outdoings of every body else.
- 1805, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals (quoting a correspondent, "Dangle")