Outran Definition

Outran Sentence Examples

• The zeal of the missionaries frequently outran their discretion.

• Here as elsewhere in his dominions his intentions were excellent, but his reforming zeal outran discretion, and his hasty and self-opinionated interferences with treaty rights and traditional privileges ended in provoking opposition and disaster.

• In such a critical generation the words of Averroism found willing ears, and pupils who outran their teacher.