Usage examples "outgrowth":
- It is the chief element in building good will- we are speaking now of courtesy as an outgrowth of character- and good will is to a firm what honor is to a man. - "The Book of Business Etiquette", Nella Henney.
- He loves them because he feels they felt as he does, and looked on men and things much as he looks upon them himself; he is an outgrowth in the same direction as that in which they grew; he is their son, bound by every law of heredity to be no less them than himself; the manner, therefore, which came most naturally to them will be the one which comes also most naturally to him as being their descendant. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.
- What we term parental affection is, I believe, in part an outgrowth of this feeling of responsibility. - "Craftsmanship in Teaching", William Chandler Bagley.
