Outrage
['aʊtreɪdʒ] or ['aʊtredʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) To rage in excess of.
(n.) Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.
(n.) Excess; luxury.
(n.) To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
(n.) Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
(v. t.) To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Insult, affront, indignity, abuse, offence.
v. a. Insult, abuse, maltreat, offend, shock.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outbreak, offence, wantonness, mischief, abuse, ebullition, violence,indignity, affront, insult
ANT:Moderation, self-control, selfrestraint, subsidence, coolness, calmness
Editor: Terence
Definition
n. violence beyond measure: excessive abuse: wanton mischief.—v.t. to treat with excessive abuse: to injure by violence esp. to violate to ravish.—v.i. to be guilty of outrage.—adj. Outrā′geous violent: furious: turbulent: atrocious: enormous immoderate.—adv. Outrā′geously.—n. Outrā′geousness.
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Examples
- Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The people of Anagni did resent the first outrage, and rose against Nogaret to liberate Boniface, but then Anagni was the Pope's native town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a fortnight past no cloth had been destroyed; no outrage on mill or mansion had been committed in the three parishes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You incite them to outrage for bad purposes of your own; so does the individual called Noah of Tim's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was during this trip that the last outrage was committed upon him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I remonstrate against these outrages upon reason and truth, of course, but it does no good. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Information of both outrages was communicated to the police, and the needful investigations were pursued, I believe, with great energy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The English people were roused to a pitch of extreme indignation by these outrages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But when he went out campaigning before the people he talked only of three-cent fares and the tax outrages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My daily vows rose for revenge--a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Almost the first complaints made to me were these two outrages. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages on the feelings and affections,--the separating of families, for example. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was Alexander who was outraging and plundering and enslaving all Thebes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yes, but you won't do it, answered Laurie, who wished to make up, but felt that his outraged dignity must be appeased first. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I believe too that the fighting qualities of syndicalism are kept at the boiling point by a greater sense of outraged human dignity than can be found among mere socialists or unionists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Or, says Sir Leicester somewhat sternly, for Volumnia was going to cut in before he had rounded his sentence, or who vindicate their outraged majesty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Because my time, pursues Sir Leicester, is wholly at your disposal with a view to the vindication of the outraged majesty of the law. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They said, 'You have pained me; you have outraged me; you have deceived me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For they outraged her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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