outrage
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage ("excess"), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā.
The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
Pronunciation Nounoutrage
- An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case ↗”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC ↗; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831 ↗, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]
- An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
- The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
- (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
- French: outrage
- German: Untat, Gräueltat, (empörendes) Verbrechen (gegen moralische Werte oder Staat etc.)
- Italian: oltraggio
- Portuguese: atrocidade
- Russian: злодея́ние
- Spanish: atrocidad
- French: offense
- German: Beleidigung, Frevel, Schandtat, Schande, Skandal
- Portuguese: ultraje
- Russian: безобра́зие
- Spanish: ultraje, desafuero, atropello
- French: colère, rage, indignation
- German: Wut, Rage, Empörung, Entrüstung
- Italian: sdegno, indignazione
- Portuguese: raiva, indignação
- Russian: я́рость
- Spanish: indignación, rabia, cólera
outrage (outrages, present participle outraging; simple past and past participle outraged)
- (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey
- The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
- (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.
- The senator's comments outraged the community.
- (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
- (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.
- 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC ↗:
- Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm
- French: indigner
- German: mit Füßen treten (idiom), brüskieren, vor den Kopf stoßen (idiom)
- Italian: oltraggiare
- Spanish: indignar
- German: empören, schockieren
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