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verb
Outvote  v. t.  To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.






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"Outvote" Quotes from Famous Books



... with no constituencies behind them. I think it has been seen long enough that a large number of persons called property, made property by the laws of the States, shall give to the oligarchs of those particular districts of country the right to outvote the independent men of the North, of the free States, where some approximation has been made to securing God-given rights to all inhabitants. I think that it is wrong that the further a State recedes from common right and common justice the more ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... our friend went on, without regarding us, "the Catholics outvote the Protestants, and not because they vote oftener, but because there are more ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells

... they vote so. And in this there is great cunning, for the organisers hold pocket boroughs among the Swiss, and Bulgarians, and Servians and other European kidlings of the Balkans. So one delegate may equal a hundred; Servia and Bulgaria may outvote France; a solitary Russian ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

... itself, a State frightfully drunken in the first half of the century, the opponents of Neal Dow in the State Legislature scornfully allowed him to carry a Bill which gave to each parish Permission to accept his measure as law. They expected that the drunkards would outvote it: but to their discomfiture found that the drunkards were glad of his law, and nailed it firm. Let all sound-hearted Englishmen trust our suffering population to use their own remedy. Under Local Option we now embrace two systems which have been already discussed in Parliament—that ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... William H. Seward, and Salmon P. Chase, a vigorous anti-slavery leader of Ohio, who now came into national prominence, were the most powerful spokesmen of the various elements of the opposition, and they were actively laying the foundations of an abolition and sectional party which should ere long outvote the South. ...
— Expansion and Conflict • William E. Dodd



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