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Definition of Outvotes
1. outvote [v] - See also: outvote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outvotes
Literary usage of Outvotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"His view he profoundly believes to be the right and true one, but society outvotes
and the police can overpower him. Hence it is well sometimes to sham ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"... the " carpet-baggers" using every means in their power to retain control,
throwing outvotes, cancelling returns, and ejecting Democratic claimants. ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"His view he profoundly believes to be the right and true one, but society outvotes
and the police can overpower him. Hence it is well sometimes to sham ..."
4. A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the by Justin McCarthy (1881)
"... the giving of outvotes as in everything else we could all make up our minds
to do right and to defy the consequences. It would be a far finer sight for ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1826)
"I suppose you have sent for the outvotes ; but, if they are not good, what a
terrible expense will that be—however, they are ready. ..."
6. Slavery: Letters and Speechesby Horace Mann by Horace Mann (1851)
"... what party predominates or outvotes, what avowals or professions will most
readily open avenues to wealth, propitiate power, win patronage, ..."
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