Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Moving or going out; seeking after external objects.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Seeking or going out after external objects.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Seeking or going out after external objects.

Etymologies

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Latin extra on the outside + ire, itum, to go.

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Examples

  • For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men are, because in general they feel less proportionate abhorrence of moral evil in and for itself, and more of its outward consequences, as detection and loss of character, than men, — their natures being almost wholly extroitive.

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men are, because in general they feel less proportionate abhorrence of moral evil in and for itself, and more of its outward consequences, as detection, and loss of character than men, -- their natures being almost wholly extroitive.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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