• Outbring

    Origin

    From Middle English outebringen, from Old English Å«tbrengan ("to bring out"), equivalent to - + bring. Cognate with Dutch uitbrengen ("to release, launch, bring out, utter"), German ausbringen ("to propose, give, space out"), Swedish utbringa ("to propose").

    Full definition of outbring

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To bring out; deliver; utter; express.
      • 1873, Alfred Austin, Madonna's child:All these, with many more, she deftly wrought Into gay wreaths and posies passing fair; Then from the inner sacristy outbrought Vases of simplest clay, but shapes most rare, And round the statue's base, as quick as thought, ...
      • 1874, Thomas Bruce, The summer queen:Whose breath of mouth divine, Of old from the deep gulf outbrought me, And who all beautiful outwrought me.
      • 1900, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: Volume 4:And then Sir Launcelot said: Now have good day, my lord the king, for wit you well ye win no worship at these walls; and if I would my knights outbring, there should many a man die.
      • 1901, Anne Judith Penny, An introduction to the study of Jacob Boehme's writings:We utter or outbring acts; the word of God produced creatures.
      • 1914, Louis Freeland Post, Alice Thacher Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A journal of democracy: Volume 17:Tea, seeds of crescive sympathy Were sown by those more excellent than he, Long known, though long contemned till then — The gods of men in amity. Souls have grown seers, and thought outbrings The mournful many-sidedness of things With foes as friends, enfeebling ires And fury-fires by gaingiving!

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