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1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out The book that I already am about.

Yea, dark or bright, if they their silver drops Cause to descend, the earth, by yielding crops, Gives praise to both, and carpeth not at either, But treasures up the fruit they yield together; Yea, so commixes both, that in her fruit None can distinguish this from that: they suit Her well when hungry; but, if she be full, She spews out both, and makes their blessings null.

No, he rather stoops, And seeks to find out what by pins and loops, By calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams, By birds and herbs, and by the blood of lambs, God speaketh to him; and happy is he That finds the light and grace that in them be.

1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.

If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

2013 November 1, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Nov 1, 2013:
"I need to help stop this rumor, too! I've been talking about how awesome Sarah is all morning! Either Elliot's straight and I've been helping spread a lie... or he is gay, and I helped out him! I've gotta do something!"
2018, D'Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 112:
For trans women of color in particular, the potential dangers of being involuntarily outed as trans, including facing harassment, violence, and worse, are well documented.
2020, Courtenay W. Daum, The Politics of Right Sex: Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights, SUNY Press (→ISBN), page 102:
... accommodations for trans students, as described above, those individuals who contest restrictive bathroom policies and/or utilize designated restrooms are more likely to be outed as trans, thereby making them more vulnerable to bullying.

2009, Peter Mark Magolda, Kelsey Ebben Gross, It's All about Jesus!: Faith as an Oppositional Collegiate Subculture, Stylus Publishing, LLC. (→ISBN)
“I can confirm that it isn't easy to be 'out' as a Christian.” (para. ) Christians in the United States in general and in higher education in particular are not minorities, yet their sense of being on the margins is genuine. They view public higher ...
2015, Anna Strhan, Aliens and Strangers?: The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals, Oxford University Press, USA (→ISBN), page 99:
A teaching assistant in her twenties described how in 'coming out as a Christian, it's easy to lose face', which she said makes it harder to be 'out' as a Christian among colleagues and others with whom one is in regular contact. In contrast ...

2005 February, Nora Laurie Percival, Herman Gund, “A Taste of Paradise”, in Silver Pages on the Lawn: A True Story of Student Love during the 1930s, Vilas, N.C.: Kent Hollow Press, published November 2009, →ISBN, part III (Fall 1934—Love Learns), page 141:
That evening, after the family, Christmased out, went early to bed, Herman brought out his unmailed letters.
2009, Julia Williams, “Prologue”, in Last Christmas, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 14:
Christmas muzak was pumping out, presumably to get her into the spirit of the thing. Not much chance of that, when she had felt all Christmassed out for months. Bugger off, she felt like shouting as a particularly cheesy version of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ blared out. Look at all these people. Do any of them look bloody merry?
2012, Jon Ronson, “Santa’s Little Conspirators”, in Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, part three (Everyday Difficulty), page 157:
I notice that this is one of the very few buildings in town that hasn’t any Christmas decorations whatsoever. / “We’re a respite from Christmas, I guess,” Suze explains. “Our kids are all Christmassed out.”

2001, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, chapter 17, in Toujours Dead: A Mystery in Provence, Atlanta: Abdale Books, →ISBN, page 342:
“ But there’s only so much joyful, greedy delight you can see in a young child’s eyes before you want to go screaming out for the nearest bar.” He tossed his handstitched, kidskin gloves onto the table top. “I’m about Christmassed-out, if you want to know.”
2008, Tina-Sue Ducross, No Shadows Left Behind, Galion, Oh.: Harris Innovations, →ISBN, page 204:
"The kids claim they are all Christmassed-out and have disappeared in protest."
2012, Michael Parker, “Of Loos and Ships and Ceiling Lights, And Cabbages and Kings”, in It’s All Going Terribly Wrong: Organised Chaos at Royal, National and Military Celebrations over 45 years, London: Bene Factum Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:
I had done Christmas in so many ways that I was somewhat ‘Christmassed-out’.