noun
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An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
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An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
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The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
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A destructive rampage.
verb
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To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
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To violate; to rape (a female).
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To rage in excess of.
Examples of outrage in a Sentence
Only when alone together were they free from such outrage and pain.
A period of calm followed the outrage.
This was the last outrage.
Of the moderation of the latter, and their abstinence from all outrage or plunder, he speaks highly.
This horrible outrage naturally created indignation in France, and it unfortunately became plain that the conspiracy had been hatched in England, and that the bombs had been manufactured in Birmingham.
The execution of the patriarch Gregorios, as technically responsible for the revolt, was an outrage to all Christendom; and it led at once to a breach of diplomatic relations with Russia.
The United States government characterized the affair as an outrage, demanding an indemnity as satisfaction.
Further it is suggested that Peisistratus was unwilling to have children by one on whom lay the curse of the Cylonian outrage.
But the insurrection was precipitated by an unpremeditated outrage.
This gross outrage led to fresh measures of coercion.
Onias was accused by his enemies of having given the information which led to this outrage and when, relying upon the support of the provincial governor, they proceeded to attempt assassination, he fled to Antioch and appealed to the king.
This theory, however, is nothing less than an outrage on history.
He held the light away from her, but the burst of outrage had startled him.
The people, headed by John Lizka (1376-1424), threw the burgomaster and several town-councillors, who were the instigators of this outrage, from the windows and they were immediately killed by the crowd.
The Romans, recognizing later the pope's innocence of the outrage, made their submission to him in January 1406.
A prison erected here at this period gave place later to the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of a Fenian outrage in 1867, when it was sought to release certain prisoners by blowing up part of the building.
In 1756 this struggle culminated in the great outrage known as the Black Hole of Calcutta, followed by Clive's battle of Plassey and capture of Calcutta, which avenged it.
Between 1811 and 1814 hands of so-called Luddites, starving operatives out of work, scoured the country, smashing machinerythe immediate cause of their misfortunesand committing every sort of outrage.
From Meerut the mutineers, after some acts of outrage and murder, moved on Delhi, the capital of the old Mogul empire, which became the headquarters of the mutiny.
John Paul's response was to reward an American cardinal who had assiduously covered up the outrage with a plush posting in Rome.
Even a terrorist outrage could cause thousands or even millions of deaths.
However, a sense of moral outrage should be encouraged where the true crest has not been followed.
The outrage over the lyrics seemed to help make Eminen a household name.
But Missouri did not move her slaves; while her vicinity encouraged border partisans to seek such establishment even without residence - by intimidation, election frauds and outrage.
On Ascension Day 1528 he committed an outrage on the sacrament carried in procession; he was placed in the pillory, had his tongue bored, and was banished from Delft for three years.
In the same year the two groups, Andaman and Nicobar, the occupation of the latter also having been forced on the British government (in 1869) by the continuance of outrage upon vessels, were united under a chief commissioner residing at Port Blair.
The effect on the passionate sultan of this " unparalleled outrage on a friendly power in time of peace " is easy to imagine.
In 1864 the ambitious dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano Lopez, without previous declaration of war, captured a Brazilian vessel in the Paraguay, and rapidly followed up this outrage by an armed invasion of the provinces of Matto Grosso and Rio Grande in Brazil, and that of Corrientes in the Argentine Republic. A triple alliance of the invaded states with Uruguay ensued, and the tide of war was soon turned from being an offensive one on the part of Paraguay to a defensive struggle within that republic against the superior number of the allies.
This outrage, which was traced to the Communists, provided fresh proof that the Democratic leader Draskovic, as Minister of the Interior, was justified in his charges of widespread terrorist conspiracy and even in the much debated Decrees (Obznane) by which he sought to combat them.
Nobody would take his part, and at last, nearly three months after the outrage, he challenged Rohan, who accepted the challenge, but on the morning appointed for the duel Voltaire was arrested and sent for the second time to the Bastille.
The outrage was discovered and remedied before the service began; and, although the Arrabbiati half filled the church and even sought to attempt his life, Savonarola kept his composure and delivered an impressive sermon.
To them persecution was an outrage upon Jesus's teachings.
This outrage was instantly avenged, for in October Earl (then Sir Frederick) Roberts with a large force defeated the Afghans on the 6th and took possession of Kabul on the 12th.
His reign was characterized by bloodshed and violence; the outrage of his son Sextus upon Lucretia precipitated a revolt, which led to the expulsion of the entire family.
The executions and floggings were carried out the next day at the scene of the outrage and in the presence of some five hundred natives.
He had amassed some wealth, which on his return to Rome he so employed among the poor as to secure for himself great popularity; and, when Vigilius was summoned to Byzantium in 544, Pelagius, now archdeacon, was left behind as his vicar, and by his tact in dealing with Totila, the Gothic invader, saved the citizens from murder and outrage.
Fatteh Khan, however, excited the king's jealously by his powerful position, and provoked the malignity of the king's son, Kamran, by a gross outrage on the Saddozai family.
This outrage was not avenged until the time of Cromwell (1654), and in the meantime the English abandoned the struggle for the Spice Islands, and turned their attention entirely to the mainland of India.
A shameless rake and a man of uncontrollable temper, his massacre of the people of Perugia after a rebellion in 1540 and the unspeakable outrage he committed on the bishop of Fano are typical of his character.
But their discomfiture was only to last a few months; in the following October a wanton outrage and.
In this year the campaign of outrage in Ireland was reinforced by one of dynamite in Great Britain.
There are notorious examples of public art, such as those entered for the Turner prize, which cause derision or outrage.
But for us, such fatalism would be an outrage.
And an American flying gunship shot up a civilian wedding engagement party in Afghanistan, provoking outrage throughout the Islamic world.
It is often the petty injustices and the high handedness of minor bureaucrats which often outrage and alienate Mr and Mrs Joe Public.
It was the moves by the Chávez government to take control of oil industry that provoked the most immediate howls of outrage.
Compensation is regarded as morally acceptable, while a bribe, however politely disguised as a cash inducement, is a matter for outrage.
War veterans reacted with outrage last night as remembrance parades were targeted by health and safety killjoys.
One leading neoconservative, William Bennett, wrote a book called The Death of Outrage, which blamed the people.
Sixty thousand official complaints to the BBC represent an historic outpouring of genuine outrage.