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past participle of outwear examples
comparative more outworn, superlative most outworn
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worn out quotations examples
Unlasting passion, soon outworn conceit,Whereon I built, and on so dureless trust!
a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean, to Cynthia
Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.
1933 January, Robert E[rvin] Howard, “The Scarlet Citadel”, in Weird Tales, volume 21, number 1, epigraph ("The Road of Kings")
Side by side with the dieselisation of C.I.E., the replacement of outworn carriages by modern steel stock was initiated.
1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 467
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