Definition of "outstood" []

• Past tense and past participle of outstand. (verb)

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• "Neverthelesse, as with an invincible true vertuous courage, she had outstood all the other injuries of Fortune; so did she constantly settle her soule, to beare this with an undaunted countenance and behaviour."
• "I answer, The Lord alone, who is the searcher of all hearts, knows how it is with you, and whether you have not any of you in particular outstood your opportunity."
• "She told herself that the mysterious proposition might be everything or might be nothing: the fact that outstood was that she had brought her aspirations to this -- that"