outcrying

outcrying

1. present participle and gerund of outcry

outcrying (plural outcryings)

1. A crying out.
   • 1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:

     The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains!

• congruity, crying out