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(transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise..
“That’s a bit like asking a man to subject himself to his own Freudian analysis,” he said, and then ventured this answer: “I guess I am Lear and the kitchen is my heath, wherein I strive to outscorn the to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.”
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Outscorn means (transitive) To overcome or overwhelm by haughty disregard; defy; scorn or despise..
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“That’s a bit like asking a man to subject himself to his own Freudian analysis,” he said, and then ventured this answer: “I guess I am Lear and the kitchen is my heath, wherein I strive to outscorn the to-and-fro conflicting wind and rain.”
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