outreign

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English

Etymology

out- +‎ reign

Verb

outreign (third-person singular simple present outreigns, present participle outreigning, simple past and past participle outreigned)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.
    On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-serving monarch, having outreigned Queen Victoria.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for outreign”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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