Outrage (Noun)

Definition 1: A horrible act of any sort: a crime, an insult, or a gross violation of good taste; explosive anger or resentment caused by such an act.

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Usage 1: Today's word may be used as a verb: "Jose's behavior at the party outraged everyone." The adjective is "outrageous" and the adverb "outrageously." Because of an etymological twist, it is no longer related to outré "highly unconventional, bizarre" but that was not always the case (see Etymology).

Suggested usage: When Bernard Shaw heard the suggestion that his play, Pygmalion, be converted to a musical comedy, his response was, " I absolutely forbid any such outrage." After his death, his estate granted the rights to produce what turned out to be My Fair Lady. Of course, the outrage that still nags us most in the US, is the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Etymology: 'Reanalysis' is the reconstruction of a word according to a misconstrued structure and today's word is a perfect example. Because it seems to contain the English words "out" and "rage," it has assumed the meaning of excessive anger, fury, as in "the outrage caused by the destruction of the World Trade Center." However, the word was actually borrowed from Old French outré "defeated" + the noun suffix -age. "Outré" was the past participle of outrer "to pass someone," based on outre "beyond," and "outrage" originally simply referred to excessive behavior. "Outre" is the French descendant of Latin ultra "beyond," also used by English in the senses "beyond, extreme," as in "ultraconservative," "ultrasound" (sound beyond human hearing), "ultracautious" (extremely cautious).

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