out-paramour

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English

Etymology

From out- +‎ paramour.

Verb

out-paramour (third-person singular simple present out-paramours, present participle out-paramouring, simple past and past participle out-paramoured)

  1. (archaic) To exceed in the number of romantic affairs.
    • 1757, John Maclaurin, The Philosopher's Opera, Edinburgh, →OCLC; chapter 21, in James Fieser, editor, Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: I, second revised edition, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2005, →OCLC, page 110:
      So when some wild deceiving boy / Assaults th' unspotted virgin, / At first the lass is very coy, / And long resists his urging. / But after she is fairly won, / And the foul deed is over, / The wanton gypsy, not half done, / Out-paramours her lover.

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