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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



... air.' I was about to encounter the assailing eyes of knavery. A gentleman of the administration welcomed me in. 'Sir,' I said, coldly, 'I was invited to meet the prefect of the police. I wish to know what is deemed an outrage to the ...
— Paris: With Pen and Pencil - Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business • David W. Bartlett
... so much the better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Caesar is stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God through the greater outrage." ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... "It's an outrage. My wife has been a contributor to this journal since its foundation. We are both intimate friends of Mr. Renshaw, to whom my wife's work has always given complete satisfaction. And now, without the slightest warning, comes this peremptory dismissal from P. ...
— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse
... hatred that smouldered in that sad heart of his," in spite of all his oddities, all his "cantankerousness," to use one of his own words, he was a singularly steadfast and loyal friend. Indeed, it was the very steadfastness of his friendship that drove him to perpetrate that outrage at Mr. Bevan's house, recorded in Dr. Gordon Hake's "Memoirs." I need only recall the way in which he used to speak of those who had been kind to him (such as his publisher, Mr. John Murray for instance) to show that no one could be more loyal or more ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... eight years ago, about the First Homaging of Herstal, had been of similar complexion; nor had other such failed in the interim, though this last outrage exceeded them all. This last began in the end of 1738; and span itself out through 1739, when Friedrich Wilhelm lay in his final sickness, less able to deal with it than formerly. Being a peaceable man, unwilling to awaken conflagrations for ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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