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c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 139 (MED) The calff off the leggys, qwan thei be smal, thei sygnyfye outragyusnes and passyng hastynes.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 905 Youre fadir was thorow outerageousnes slayne.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 44 Othir ther be that..through their fals conforte taketh away the shame of their vnhoneste nycete and owtrageousenesse.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus To Gentlem. Eng. That the outragiousnes of great gamyng, shuld not hurte the honestie of shotyng.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlviij^v This aunswere..could not mittigate or assuage the Scottes angre and outrageousnes.

c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 11 The weather growinge into such a monstrous outragiousnes.

1661 Princess Cloria iv. 407 The Savage creature without other circumstances, began to laugh so loud, that the Woods appeared to tremble with the outrageousness of the noise.

1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. i. 19 An Example of the Impudence and Outragiousness of Lust.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless II. xvi. 184 What he took only for a common bruise proved to be a contusion, and for want of proper care at first, through the outrageousness of the pain, soon brought on a fever.

1779 H. Downman Lucius Junius Brutus iv. i. 85 I found..her in bed, undress'd, found her reluctant, Found her, indeed, chaste to outrageousness.

1814 Q. Rev. 12 74 When idolaters turn iconoclasts, they act as if the outrageousness of the one excess were to efface or atone for the folly of the other.

1869 E. S. Ffoulkes Church's Creed 36 The outrageousness of the whole proceeding.

1921 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love (new ed.) vii. 81 He was so conventional at home, that when he was really away, and on the loose, as now, he enjoyed nothing so much as full outrageousness.

1988 S. McCrumb Bimbos Death Sun xi. 141 He described Appin Dungannon's general outrageousness, from the Yorkie bars to the breakfast croissants, hitting all the tantrums in between.

2002 N.Y. Times 4 Jan. b46/1 At the Met sancai reaches an apotheosis of outrageousness in a nearly five-foot-tall swan-footed vase.