Acrimony vs Outrage - What's the difference?
acrimony | outrage |
A sharp and bitter hatred.
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An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
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, chapter=1 An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
(obsolete) A destructive rampage.
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
* Atterbury
* Broome
(archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
(obsolete) To rage in excess of.
As a noun acrimony
is a sharp and bitter hatred.acrimony
English
Noun
(acrimonies)- Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
- In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].
Synonyms
* animosity * bitterness * enmity * hatred * oppositionAntonyms
* friendship * peaceoutrage
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).
Verb
(outrag)- Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
- This interview outrages all decency.
- (Young)