outrage
pronunciation
How to pronounce outrage in British English:
UK [ˈaʊtreɪdʒ]
How to pronounce outrage in American English:
US [ˈaʊtreɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a feeling of righteous anger
- a wantonly cruel act
- a disgraceful event
- the act of scandalizing
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- Verb:
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
Word Origin
- outrage
- outrage: [13] Outrage has no etymological connection with either out or rage. It comes via Old French outrage from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ‘excess’, a noun derived from the Latin preposition ultrā ‘beyond’. This of course has given English the prefix ultra-, and it is also the source of French outré ‘eccentric’, borrowed by English in the 18th century.=> outré, ultra
- outrage (n.)
- c. 1300, "evil deed, offense, crime; affront, indignity," from Old French outrage "harm, damage; insult; criminal behavior; presumption, insolence, overweening" (12c.), earlier oltrage (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *ultraticum "excess," from Latin ultra "beyond" (see ultra-). Etymologically, "the passing beyond reasonable bounds" in any sense; meaning narrowed in English toward violent excesses because of folk etymology from out + rage. Of injuries to feelings, principles, etc., from 1769.
- outrage (v.)
- c. 1300, "to go to excess, act immoderately," from outrage (n.). From 1580s with meaning "do violence to." Related: Outraged; outraging.
Example
- 1. And that is both a tragedy and an outrage .
- 2. All , right-minded people will be surely shocked by this outrage .
- 3. Perhaps the scale of the atrocity numbs moral outrage .
- 4. Expect another grilling , another bank apology , another storm of outrage .
- 5. Built a coalition of support for me and outrage about her ?