Outrage vs Fury - What's the difference?
outrage | fury |
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, 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.
Extreme anger.
Strength or violence in action.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,!”
An angry or malignant person.
(obsolete) A thief.
* J. Fletcher
In obsolete terms the difference between outrage and fury
is that outrage is a destructive rampage while fury is a thief.As nouns the difference between outrage and fury
is that outrage is an excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity while fury is extreme anger.As a verb outrage
is to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.As a proper noun Fury is
female personification of vengeance (Wikipedia).outrage
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)
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) furie, from (etyl)Noun
(furies)Derived terms
* furiousEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) .Noun
(furies)- Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies .