211: outrage versus outrageous Jul 7, 2015

Like science, linguistics is constantly changing. 'Outrage' and 'outrageous' do not have similar meanings, but both come from Middle English in the senses ‘lack of moderation’ and ‘violent behavior’, although now the two words only have one sense respectively. The sense of 'outrage' development has been affected by the belief that the word is a compound of out and rage, however this belief is now outdated.