outmiracle

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ miracle

Verb[edit]

outmiracle (third-person singular simple present outmiracles, present participle outmiracling, simple past and past participle outmiracled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in miraculousness.
    • 1842, John Pridham, The Church of England, as to Her Excellencies and Defects, page 646:
      Why, to believe this seriously, is to outmiracle the prophecies and miracles themselves.
    • 2013, Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil, page 178:
      As wonders of doctrine, they were hardly likely to outmiracle the Jesuits. They involved no intervention of the divine in the bodies of human individuals.