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Definition of Outsparkle
1. v. t. To exceed in sparkling.
Definition of Outsparkle
1. Verb. To exceed in sparkling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outsparkle
1. [v -KLED, -KLING, -KLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsparkle
Literary usage of Outsparkle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"It seems necessary to hold up to men's minds, apart from Holy Writ, something
that may outsparkle the gilded lucre that so exclusively controls the energies ..."
2. The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley (1922)
"... and cherry-tree among flowers, Like Spring and Autumn among the four seasons.
Then, as snow that would outsparkle the moonlight, Gen strove with Hei; ..."
3. The Bible in the World's Education by Henry White Warren (1892)
"Does not the asking answer ? Why else have the keenest scholars bent over these
pages for millennia ? Such mining must yield gems that outsparkle Gol- conda ..."
4. First Years in Europe by George Henry Calvert (1866)
"... the man or race in whom it is found, all poetic susceptibility and artistic
liveliness. Luckily for him, his architectural ambitions did not outsparkle ..."
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