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発音

• IPA: /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈaʊt.ɹɪd͡ʒ/
• ハイフネーション: out‧rage

名詞

outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)

1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.

   Synonyms: depravity, wrong; see also Thesaurus: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. […]

2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 38:

     Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave. They were satisfied it was the same body found at Yallourn - but made no progress in running down the ghouls responsible for the outrage.

   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.

3. (uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
   • 1648, Journals of the House of Lords‎, volume X, Die Jovis, 13 die Aprilis (Thursday 13 April 1648), page 188:

     The Lords acknowledge the great and happy Providence of Almighty God, in the preventing of ſo horrid an Outrage, which might have endangered the Lives of the Chief Magiſtrates, and alſo hazarded the Spoil of the whole City of London.

派生語

動詞

outrage (third-person singular simple present outrages, present participle outraging, simple past and past participle outraged)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.

   Synonyms: enrage, inflame, provoke; see also Thesaurus:enrage

   The senator's comments outraged the community.

3. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.

   Synonyms: abuse, ravish, violate; see also Thesaurus:rape

4. (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

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参照

Further reading

• “outrage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “outrage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.