outwith

prep
/aʊtˈwɪð/UK

Etymology

From Middle English outwith, outewith, a transposed variant of Middle English withoute (“without”). Cognate to Scots ootwi. By surface analysis, out + with.

  1. inherited from outwith

Definitions

  1. Outside

    Outside; beyond; outside of.

    • All at once he’d wanted to buy a place there, but it had been too isolated for his wife – and outwith their means anyway.
    • It is not acceptable to have EU-US deals on extradition, information collection and exchange, and border controls which are cooked up in secret and outwith the democratic control of the European and national parliaments.
  2. Outside, outwardly

    Outside, outwardly; outwards.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outwith. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA