outˈrageousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being outrageous: a. Excess, extravagance; excessive violence, fury, ferocity; b. Flagrant wrongfulness or indignity; enormity, atrociousness, heinousness.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur xiv. i, I see wel ye haue grete wylle to be slayne as your fader was thorugh oultrageousnes. 1545 R. Ascham Toxoph. To Gentlem. Eng. (Arb.) 17 That the outragiousness of great gamyng shuld not hurte the honestie of shotyng. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 48 b, This aunswere..could not mittigate or assuage the Scottes angre and outrageousnes. c 1594 Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl.) 11 The weather growinge into such a monstrous outragiousnes. 1695 J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 19 An example of the impudence and outragiousness of lust. 1798 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 96/2 The violence and outrageousness that had characterised its original champions. 1869 E. S. Ffoulkes Church's Creed or Crown's Creed? 36 The outrageousness of the whole proceeding. |