outsounding

Definitions

present participle and gerund of outsound

form-of, gerund, participle, present

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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