outvie

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I mean this feast," said she, "as a reward of industry and piety, and not as a trial of skill who can be finest and outvie the rest in show.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah

But nature often takes a fancy to outvie her skilful and ambitious handmaiden, and is always certain to succeed in the competition.

From The Widow's Dog by Mitford, Mary Russell

Her main endeavor in this is to outvie her neighbors in the extravagance of fashion.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

The lapse of a few months transformed her from almost a homeless, friendless, impoverished widow, to be the bride of one whose advancing greatness seemed to outvie the wildest creations of fiction.

From Hortense Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

And now doth shine within its humble home A star, that doth each other so outvie, That grateful nature hails its lovely birth.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas