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Outwear   Listen
verb
Outwear  v. t.  (past outwore; past part. outworn; pres. part. outwearing)  
1.
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
2.
To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear."





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"Outwear" Quotes from Famous Books



... hath amidst of its wail: More hope than of pleasure fulfilled amidst of thy blindness is set; More glorious than gaining of all thine unfaltering hand that shall fail: For what is the mark on thy brow but the brand that thy Brynhild doth bear? Lone once, and loved and undone by a love that no ages outwear. ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. For this reason the strenuous type of character will on the battle-field of human history always outwear the easy-going type, and religion will drive ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James
... They do it on purpose to escape the handed-downs! They won't even have hair ribbons different. And the result is that poor Connie never gets one new thing except shoes. She says she can not help thanking the Lord in her prayers, that all of us outwear our shoes before we can outgrow them.—Connie is only nine. Fairy is sixteen, and the twins are thirteen. They are a very clever lot of girls. Fairy, as I told you, is just naturally smart, and aims to be a college professor. Lark is an intelligent studious girl, and ...
— Prudence of the Parsonage • Ethel Hueston


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