different between outrage vs revolt

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 French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revolt?re < *revolvit?re, for *revol?t?re, frequentative of Latin revolv? (“roll back”) (through its past participle revol?tus).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???vo?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v??lt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt
• Hyphenation: re?volt

Verb

revolt (third-person singular simple present revolts, present participle revolting, simple past and past participle revolted)

1. To rebel, particularly against authority.
2. To repel greatly.
   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

     This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

   • 1870, John Morley, Condorcet (published in the Fortnightly Review

     To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.

3. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
4. (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

5. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
   • 1886, John Morley, The Life of Turgot

     His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

Translations

Noun

revolt (countable and uncountable, plural revolts)

1. An act of revolt.

   Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion

Translations

Related terms

• revolting

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French révolte.

Noun

rèvolt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. revolt

Declension

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