Definition of Outwaiting

1. Verb. (present participle of outwait) ¹

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Definition of Outwaiting

1. outwait [v] - See also: outwait

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwaiting

outvillained
outvillains
outvoice
outvoiced
outvoices
outvoicing
outvote
outvoted
outvoter
outvoters
outvotes
outvoting
outvying
outwait
outwaited
outwaiting (current term)
outwaits
outwalk
outwalked
outwalker
outwalkers
outwalking
outwalks
outwall
outwalls
outwar
outward
outward-bound
outward-developing
outward-moving

Literary usage of Outwaiting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... he waited with inexhaustible patience, outwaiting President Davis and the Southern Confederacy, till the time when their fire-eaters should get out of ..."

2. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Perspective by Anthony Arnold (1985)
"Its broad strategy has been to wear down external opposition by simply outwaiting it, exploiting the fickleness of world public interest in a little-known ..."

3. Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the by William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1888)
"Then, like a glittering dream, ye fade and pass Into the gathering wealth of Summer skies; Fair fragrant clover and the crested grass, outwaiting wintry ..."

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