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outragement (1260-70)
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outragement (1260-70)

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utragement  
  FEW:  ultra *14,9 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

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See also:

outrage  outragier  outragous  outragousement  outre 
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