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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outcry.

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Examples

  • D. dragon outcried to sky, two hugh D. dragon appearance on storm, axe had flew to far distance, and the land still hungry absorb the raining water.

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  • In that announcement she outcried the stream, and through the comparative quietness that followed a hideous noise rumbled and shrieked upwards from the hollow.

    Moor Fires 1914

  • For all that he outcried it, there was a touch of shame on his cheeks when he remembered that, had he asked, she would have given him that scrap of paper the first hour of their meeting.

    A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Then the voice of the world had spoken, and within him another voice had answered, with a tone so clamorous and insistent that it had outcried his surprised and incredulous wonder at its existence and its claims.

    The Masquerader Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

  • She at once took side with Helen against Doctor Portman, when he outcried at the enormity of Pen's transgressions.

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "An act for the better regulating of _outcries_ in open market:" here we read of "_Negroes, cattle, coppers, and stills, and other chattels_, brought by execution to open market to be outcried, and these (as if all of equal importance) are ranged together _in great lots or numbers to be sold_."

    Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects Anthony Benezet 1748

  • She at once took side with Helen against Doctor Portman, when he outcried at the enormity of Pen’s transgressions.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • &c. This people was much in ceremonial and external duties; and therefore they cried, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of Lord!” as if this would have outcried all their other sins; therefore were they proud, and lords in their own estimation, and innocent, Jer. ii.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • But yet all this is outcried by the contrary noise of every man’s practice.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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