outromance

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ romance.

Verb

outromance (third-person singular simple present outromances, present participle outromancing, simple past and past participle outromanced)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in romance; to be more romantic than.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      their real sufferings outromanced the fictions of many errant adventures

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