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Definition of Outgeneraling
1. outgeneral [v] - See also: outgeneral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgeneraling
Literary usage of Outgeneraling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... so a dozen times he might have thought of his actions only as a means of
outgeneraling his opponents so as to get a better opportunity to defeat them. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Henry, delighted at the prospect of outgeneraling his great rival in hie turn,
promptly seized upon all the passes. Farnese then found himself completely ..."
3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and by Francis Whiting Halsey (1919)
"The Turks, on April 13, sustained another defeat, when the British won by
outgeneraling them. They made a strategic retreat, drawing the Turks after them, ..."
4. James K. Polk, a Political Biography by Eugene Irving McCormac (1922)
"But Polk was not the man to shirk responsibility, and his success in outgeneraling
the bank party soon demonstrated that the ..."
5. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1881)
"... during the war did he display more sagacity than in the plan and execution of
this movement, and in his complete outgeneraling of Sir Henry Clinton. ..."
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