Had he, Hodder, outgrown the dean's religion, or had it ever been his own?
We outgrow slavery by advancing beyond it in the process of industrial development, and when we have outgrown it we regard it with abhorrence.
The thing of all others to be avoided is the outgrown idea that heavenly magic attends completely to these matters.
We have now, even among those whose affection for their parents is strong in feeling and generous in action, an idea that the convictions and reverences of the older generation are outgrown and for the better.
The old idea that men should have the power to hold women in wholly unsuitable surroundings, and that no matter what home was offered her a wife must submit and accept, is long outgrown in all the States of this Union.
Yet it is certainly true that many people freely engage themselves to their later unhappiness and there have been many family virtues bred on even the outgrown fashion of family choice.
But of all the ideas inimical to the family in our modern life, the demand for its return to aristocratic and outgrown forms is the most absurd and the most harmful.
Since the child had outgrown the exclusive care of Katharine, and could stand and walk and feed himself, he still slept in the maid's room upstairs, but he shared the living room with his father and ate with him at the table.
This whole intolerable fallacy ofoutgrown and hard-shelled narrow-mindedness was spurring him to outbreak, yet for a moment more he held himself in check.
The visitor spoke with his eyes fixed on those of the man who had outgrown him in financial stature and become a Colossus.
Most of us have felt its fascination second only to that of the dotted spiral of the skipping-stone, a fascination not outgrown with years.
This condition of servitude is never outgrown by the individual, as it has never been outgrown by the race.
From the religion of our mother to the birth of our boyish first love, all our early associations send down roots so deep that long after our minds have outgrownthem our hearts refuse to give them up.
We have not all outgrown the feeling of dependence instilled in us by more than 250 years of chattel bondage; many of us yet shrink from responsibility, and lack the requisite amount of ambition.
It is noticeable, however, that this is being rapidlyoutgrown and more self-control is being practiced.
When a little boy, he had prayed, in his simple way, that he might be a great poet, and though he had outgrownthe prayer, his desire was unchanged.
We have, it is said, outgrown superstition, but I can't help thinking misfortune would follow the money we made that way.
We have outgrown belief in those fables, sir," he declared.
He is old enough to have quite outgrown all his wild ways, and he has quite gentlemanly manners and ways.
Lydia was wearing a faded and outgrown blue gingham.
He took in the faded blue Tam, the outgrown coat, the red mittens, so badly mended, the leggings with patches on the knees.
We have outgrown the crude frame of mind which saw direct volitional action in a storm or in the movements of natural forces.
And so long as we have not outgrownthat habit we are retaining a fatal bar to exact scientific thinking.
For many reasons, with which we are not now immediately concerned, religious beliefs are not outgrown without considerable "growing pains.
This is, that a certain institution or idea has outgrown its usefulness and its removal is necessary to healthy growth.
It was but two or three months since he had finished it, and it was his one hope for success and freedom; and yet already he had outgrown it utterly.
The story-hour has outgrown itself and our limited supply of assistants.
Humanity has outgrown its social, political age, and has entered upon a new one.
No matter what arguments men may adduce in proof of the danger of abolishing the power of the state and that this abolition may beget calamities, the men who have outgrown the political form can no longer find their place in it.
And yet you can't possibly take up the life of anoutgrown age because he prefers the thought of yesterday.
I might have been scornfully thrust in among the cobwebs with other promiscuous rummage of outgrown days.
In some respects it has outgrown its present laws, while in others those laws have been found to be inadequate.
The work to be done by the Royal Flying Corps hadoutgrown its strength.
When military aviation had outgrown its early pupilage to the Royal Engineers it came under the immediate control of the War Office.
However, it was not as hard on them as on women outgrown their primary function.
Humanity has outgrown its social stage and has entered upon a new period.
And all the reasoning in the world cannot make the man who has outgrown the governmental form of society take part in actions disallowed by his conscience, any more than the full-grown bird can be made to return into the egg-shell.
This consists in checking the moral development of men, and by various suggestions keeping them back in the ideal of life, outgrown by mankind at large, on which the power of government rests.
Yet men of what is falsely called science, pseudo-scientific men, looking at it only in its externals, regard it as something outgrown and having no value for us.
Just as no power in the world can put them back into the shells, so can no power in the world bring men again under the governmental type of society when once they have outgrown it.
And therefore, in the first place, religion is not, as science imagines, a manifestation which at one time corresponded with the development of humanity, but is afterward outgrown by it.
The child had outgrown her mother, that is, the church had, in its own conception, outgrown the home, and it repudiated her control.
The philistinism of Macaulay is here rampant; and the one thing which students are sure to get from the essay is the conception that poetry is the product of barbarism, to be outgrown and cast aside when civilization is sufficiently advanced.
They have outgrown the license of the one state without having as yet acquired the liberty of action that belongs to the other.
Moreover in intellectual matters, Dorothy had completely outgrownher former playmate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outgrown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
