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out-front
out-group
out-Herod
out loud
out-of-body
out-of-bounds
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out-of-date
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-ous
-ous


suffix 
Definition:
 
1. full of or having the qualities of
virtuous
traitorous
2. chemistry having a lower valence than a corresponding compound or ion the name of which ends in -ic
chromous
[Via Old French< Latin -osus and -us]
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