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English
Etymology
From out- + well.
Verb
outwell (third-person singular simple present outwells, present participle outwelling, simple past and past participle outwelled)
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To well outward; to issue forth.
1591, Philip Sidney, “Somewhat to reade for them that list”, in Astrophel and Stella, London: Thomas Newman:[…] Religion that rebuketh prophane lamentation, drinkes in the riuers of those dispaireful teares, which languorous ruth hath outwelled […]
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