Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OUT'RAGE, n. [Fr. id.; It. oltraggio; Sp. and Port. ultraje.]

Injurious violence offered to persons or things; excessive abuse; wanton mischief. Rude abusive language, scurrility, or opprobrious and contemptuous words, may be an outrage to persons, or to decency and civility. A violent attack upon person or property is an outrage. He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country where he went. Spenser.