outragern.
/ˈaʊtreɪdʒə/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌreɪdʒər/ A person who subjects another to outrage or gross violence; a violator; an affronter or offender of other people, their feelings, laws, morals, etc.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful person > [noun] > violent
batterer1611
outrager1840
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > person
cut-throat1535
club-fist1575
violator1583
club-lawyera1670
thug1838
outrager1840
messer1942
1840 R. Browning Let. 23 Aug. in A. Roberts Robert Browning (1997) 679 They are men and women oppressed in such and such ways and desirous of being rid of their oppressor and outrager.
1868 R. F. Burton Lett. Battle-fields Paraguay (1870) 289 The outrage was hailed as a triumph by the outrager.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1874) ix. 208 An outrager of all laws and social duties.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Dec. 324/1 Women have killed themselves rather than submit to outrage; they have killed the outrager [etc.].
1962 R. M. Ohmann Shaw ii. i. 46 He proffers an image of Shaw the outrager of bourgeois sensibilities.
1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 Feb. 30 The notorious film that elevated a low-rent maker of ‘splatter flicks’ into an outrager of public morals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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