out-realisted

Updated: May 23, 2025

Boyesen, indeed, out-realisted me, in the polemics of our aesthetics, and sometimes when an unbeliever was by, I willingly left to my friend the affirmation of our faith, not without some quaking at his unsparing strenuousness in disciplining the heretic.

William Dean Howells - Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship

Boyesen, indeed, out-realisted me, in the polemics of our aesthetics, and sometimes when an unbeliever was by, I willingly left to my friend the affirmation of our faith, not without some quaking at his unsparing strenuousness in disciplining the heretic.

William Dean Howells - Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)