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ˈoutraged, ppl. a. [f. outrage v.1 + -ed1.] Subjected to outrage, gross violence, or indignity; violated.
a1711Ken Div. Love Wks. (1838) 242 Was ever any Love, O outraged Mercy, like that love thou didst shew in dying for sinners? 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxviii. 366 With the prompt ceremonial which outraged law delights in. 1869Tennyson Holy Grail 208 An outraged maiden sprang into the hall, Crying on help.
Add:2. Profoundly offended or angered; shocked, horrified, appalled; bitterly indignant.
1911G. B. Shaw Getting Married 235 The General [outraged]: Do you imply that I have been guilty of conduct that would expose me to penal servitude? 1941E. Bowen Look at all those Roses 130 Throughout tea the outraged Harriet had not suffered in silence: there had been a good deal of mumbling at her end of the table. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 129 They..were watching them, the inquisitors, the inspectors, the alarmed and outraged and amazed. 1982U. Bentley Natural Order (1983) 24, I felt outraged at having been exposed to such brutality. |