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Outrage   /ˈaʊtrˌeɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Outrage  n.  
1.
Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury. "He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country."
2.
Excess; luxury. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Affront; insult; abuse. See Affront.


verb
Outrage  v. t.  To rage in excess of. (R.)


Outrage  v. t.  (past & past part. outragen; pres. part. outraging)  
1.
To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse. "Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return." "This interview outrages all decency."
2.
Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
3.
To cause to become very angry; as, the burning of the flag outraged the small conservative town.


Outrage  v. i.  To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.





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"Outrage" Quotes from Famous Books



... say the prank he played on Philip and his advisers would be regarded as unworthy cunning, and an outrage on the rules of high honour. Good Protestant Christians disapproved then, as now, the wickedness of thus gambling with religion to attain any object whatsoever, and especially of swearing by the Mother of God the renunciation of the Protestant faith and the adoption of ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman
... become of our men, or where the bairns hae fled, we know not,—we were baith demented by the outrage, and hid oursel's here after it was owre late," said that aged person, in a voice of settled grief that was more sorrowful to hear than any lamentation could have been, and all the sacred exhortations that Mr Witherspoon could employ softened not the ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... the shop, having been hastily summoned, would return to demand angrily what the rumpus was all about. By this time the clerk would have recovered his wits sufficiently to denounce the proceeding as an outrage and the suit as baseless. But his master, who saw judgment against himself for sixty dollars and his goods actually under attachment, was usually in no mood to listen to, much less believe, his clerk's explanations. At all events, they availed naught, when Levine, ...
— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train
... recently been inflicted on the refractory Ionians, many of the continental Greeks and nearly all the islanders submitted, and gave the required tokens of vassalage. At Sparta and Athens an indignant refusal was returned: a refusal which was disgraced by outrage and violence against the ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.
... age, and, preparing for the night, saw with a sense of personal outrage his seamed countenance reflected in the mirror of the bureau. Yet in reality he wasn't old—forty-something—still, not fifty. He was as hard and nearly as springy as a hickory sapling. There was ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer


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