单词 | outstepping |
释义 | outsteppingn. The action of outstep v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > deviation from straight course turna1400 circuit1483 circumferencea1549 wrying1592 extravagation1611 extravagancya1616 extravagance1644 deviation1646 outstepping1656 left1675 detour1738 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 33 Those strayings also and outsteppings, whereof Gods faithfullest servants are now and then guilty. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 26 When a man thus walking with God in the main, hath yet these outsteppings and deviations upon the by. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. xi. 331 He got no nearer to the base of it [sc. the mountain] for all his vigorous outstepping. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. v. 115 On the contrary, there might be a dangerous snare in an unsanctified outstepping of average Christian practice. 1912 H. Church Poems 151 Oh, I fell By the hard stone Experience has laid For every man's outstepping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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