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1632 P. Hausted Rivall Friends iv. iii Hence dull melancholly, I now must finde a face that must out-smile A morne in Iune.

c1653 W. Basse Vrania iv. 309 When fayre Cyprina smiles on bright Lucina Well-pleasd Lucina striues t'outsmile Cyprina.

1788 R. Merry Diversity 27 A Demon is come forth..Out-smiling truth, and e'en outblushing shame, He reigns, and Affectation is his name!

1818 T. Doubleday Sonnets & Poems lvi. 82 Her hazel eye, so gently mild, A gentler than itself hath haply seen, Her coral lips, with ivory between, So sweetly smiling, may have been outsmiled.

1894 R. Bridges Shorter Poems 39 Autumn lingers but to outsmile the May.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 254 She smiled on him. But sister bronze outsmiled her, preening for him her richer hair, a bosom and a rose.

2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 30 Dec. (Real Estate) 103 At open house after open house, 50 other applicants outsmile you or elbow you aside, or you outsmile them or elbow them aside.

1775 R. B. Sheridan in T. Hull Edward & Eleonora Epil. 61 Domestic Heroines—who with fondest Care Outsmile a Husband's Griefs—or claim a Share.

1805 F. Reynolds Deliquent ii. iii. 32 Oh! Mrs. Aubrey! you, who have shared, and oft outsmil'd my sorrows, does this..repay you?

1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 155 She would..smile through the washing-week..out-smiling Martha's frowns.

1887 F. T. Palgrave Ode for Twenty-first June 8 In great Nature's changeful mystic dance Joy circles grief, gay dawn outsmiles the night.