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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.
1extravagantly, 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
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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
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