outlove

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ love

Verb[edit]

outlove (third-person singular simple present outloves, present participle outloving, simple past and past participle outloved)

  1. (transitive) To love more than somebody else.
    • 1850, Church Pastoral-aid Society, The Church of England Magazine, volume 28, London, page 37:
      He (Mr. S.) would have the Protestants of Ireland to outlove their Roman-catholic brethren, to outlove them and outlabour them.