Citations:outrageous
Outrageousness
[edit]Meaning violence :
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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.)