Citations:outrageous

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Outrageousness[edit]

Meaning violence :

1485
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  • 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV, Chapter i, leaf 321v
    A Percyual sayd she wold ye fyghte with hym / I see wel ye haue grete wylle to be slayne as your fader was thorugh oultrageousnes
    "Ah, Percival, said she, would ye fight with him? I see well ye have great will to be slain as your father was, through outrageousness."
(Pellinore, Percival's father, was killed in battle by Sir Gawain; Book II, Chapter x.)
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