outrages

Noun

outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)

1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
   • 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.[…]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 &...

   Synonyms:

   depravity, wrong, atrocity, infamy, iniquity, turpitude, wickedness

2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
   • 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.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 38
3. (uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage.
   • 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.1648, Journals of the House of Lords, volume X, Die Jovis, 13ᵃ die Aprilis (Thursday 13 April 1648), page 188

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