outwill

English

Etymology

out- +‎ will

Verb

outwill (third-person singular simple present outwills, present participle outwilling, simple past and past participle outwilled)

1. (transitive) To surpass in force of will.
   • 1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium:

     Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their ends.

   • 2014, Noriyuki Katagiri, Adapting to Win, page 128:

     Even if not, Somali resolve would have still remained strong enough during World War I to outwill the British.