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outragement (1260-70)

outragement (1260-70)

utragement  
[ FEW: *14,9 ultra; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF:  outre (*); DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  outragely adv.; MED:  outrageli adv.; DMLBS: ]

Outragement is the normal adverbial construction of outrage (used as an adjective). It is not found in Continental French, but a similar construction appears in fifteenth-century English (i.e. the adverb outragely from the adjective outrage).

adv.

1 extravagantly, immoderately
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 ) Nul humme trop utrajusement  (ms. utragement) Pur Deu ne deit tayler la gent, Ce est a dire trop suvent  Man pechez ants 5039 (MS)
2lawin a manner causing wrong, injury, damage (through excess or serious misconduct)
( 1334 )  come ils ount esté tut outragement destruitz par les gueres d'Escoce  Northern Pet 122

[gdw]

See also:

outrage  outragier  outragous  outragousement  outre 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
outragement