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- verb Present participle of
outstep .
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Examples
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In a speech to a superior, liberty is a studied or excessive boldness — frankness outstepping its just bounds.
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"Don't you think," she returned, "that you are a little outstepping your privileges?"
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Will [Illustrator] Gref�� 1906
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Bring a weak man, fearful of outstepping his authority, he at first forebore pulling down houses standing in the pathway of the flames, as suggested to him,
Royalty Restored 1883
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Lately returned, as it should seem, from this embassy, he came forward in the Roman Senate and accused the Patrician Albinus of outstepping the bounds of loyalty to the Ostrogothic King in the letters which he had addressed to the Byzantine Emperor.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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'Ah, but, Lady Wathin, you are now outstepping the limits prescribed by the office you have undertaken.'
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'Ah, but, Lady Wathin, you are now outstepping the limits prescribed by the office you have undertaken.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'Ah, but, Lady Wathin, you are now outstepping the limits prescribed by the office you have undertaken.'
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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He got no nearer to the base of it for all his vigorous outstepping.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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He got no nearer to the base of it for all his vigorous outstepping.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868
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He got no nearer to the base of it for all his vigorous outstepping.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868
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