Definition of "outwore" [outwore]

• Past tense of outwear. (verb)

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• "Is she selfe truth and errs? now new, now outwore?"
• "But the luck that outwore us now lies on their guilt;"
• "For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow."