different between outrage vs misery

English

Etymology

From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Late Latin *ultr?gium, *ultr?ticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultr? (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- +? rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.

The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?a?t.?e?d??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?æot.?æed??/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?a?t.??d??/

Noun

outrage (countable and uncountable, plural outrages)

1. An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
2. An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
3. The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
4. (obsolete) A destructive rampage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

outrage (third-person singular simple present outrages, present participle outraging, simple past and past participle outraged)

1. (transitive) To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
   • August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet

     Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.

   • 1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey

     The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.

2. (transitive) To inspire feelings of outrage in.

   The senator's comments outraged the community.

3. (archaic, transitive) To sexually violate; to rape.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To rage in excess of.

Translations

Related terms

• outrageous

References

Further reading

• outrage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• outrage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Old French oltrage

Noun

outrage m (plural outrages)

1. offence, insult, contempt
2. (literary) onslaught

Verb

outrage

1. first-person singular present indicative of outrager
2. third-person singular present indicative of outrager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of outrager
5. second-person singular imperative of outrager

Further reading

• “outrage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mis?ery

Noun

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
2. (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
   • 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:

     [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.

3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
4. (Extreme) poverty.
5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:greed

Derived terms

• put out of one's misery

Related terms

• commiserate
• miser
• miserable

Translations

Anagrams

• Myries