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What does out-Herod mean?

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Verb
  1. To surpass in evil and cruelty (originally and chiefly with Herod as direct object). [from 17th c.]
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I should like to out-Herod that puppy Rowland, and make a saint of myself out of a sinner.
They are bad copies of the Spaniards, whose failings they imitate and out-Herod till they become odious vices.
An evil day for journalists and writers who do not out-Herod Blanqui and Pyat.

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