When a person creates something indescribable and unlawful, he is accused of atrocity, this is obvious. We repeat many words again and again, but do we know what they really mean according to the explanatory dictionary? Few people look in a wonderful book, many rely on context and habit. Today we will analyze the word "outrage".
Value
The most interesting thing is that the object of study can be found in different contexts. For example, a person behaves strangely on his uncle's anniversary, he is atrocious. When the boss fusses and says that he wants to receive quarterly reports not on time, but tomorrow, he does the same. That is, the noun “outrage” covers a huge range of phenomena that are not connected at first or even second glance. But there is still something unifying. This is what the explanatory dictionary will tell us: outrage is "gross disorder, scandalous behavior." A smart book gives a key to understanding why personal and public scandals are similar in their foundation: both phenomena violate order.
Out of law and out of authority
We will not deceive and say that we have found the etymology of the word and are in a hurry to tell it to the reader. No, we, unfortunately, did not find it, but we will decompose it into components and think about why the meaning of the word “outrage” is such and not otherwise and how it is related to writing.
Any order implies hierarchy, hierarchy implies submission, and submission almost always rejects freedom. Some rules are close to us, and we accept them, others we do not like, and we deny them. But sometimes a program crashes when one element of the script refuses to fulfill its role, and then disgrace is born. It's pretty ornate, huh? Nothing, with examples will be easier. Let's go back to the uncle’s jubilee, where his nephew arranged a uniform brawl and behaved indecently. Why? Probably because the situation with alcohol consumption got out of control. When people have a holiday, they agree:
- drink;
- praise the hero of the occasion;
- have fun.
Probably, a real celebration can be decomposed into a larger number of elements, but to us they are unnecessary. It is important to understand that these actions are part of a social contract, which also prescribes to everyone moderation in the implementation of these points. If immoderation comes into play, then outrage begins - this is the time when all the ranks are canceled, the authorities are violated. In other words, chaos takes the reins of government, the outcome of such an action can never be predicted. By the way, in celebrations where stimulants that distort consciousness are involved, you can never predict the result. The breadth of the Russian soul is manifested primarily in the scope of the holidays. Of course, our interpretation was not etymology. And once again we say: the question of what disobedience means implies a simple answer: refusal to comply with the prescribed rules, laws. That is why scandalous behavior and oppression of other people are combined under the “roof” of this word: both violate social rules, and you cannot behave this way.
suggestions
After we have learned the meaning and even interpreted it, we can proceed to the sample sentences. Someone may need such things for training, moreover, in an arbitrarily chosen context, words can more clearly demonstrate their meaning. So, let's begin:
- You know, Petrov, in vain you missed the classification today. The teacher made a riot and refused to put the triples for nothing! He says that even at three, you need to know. Probably something terrible happened in his life, and he changed his principles.
- Today I suffered unprecedented oppression and outrage! Are you still asking what happened ?! Mom made the room clean!
- If "outrage" received the status of a doctrine in managing people, then our boss would become her faithful adherent. Do not ask. He canceled breaks and tea breaks and made the whole office work, and he could only drink tea and smoke during the lunch break, no, can you imagine ?!
Yes, the proposals were not without humor, but they fulfill their function: they demonstrate the meaning of “outrage”. Maybe it’s true that we have obtained examples of subjective resentment rather than scandalous behavior. But in order to get information about the debauches made by public people, you can read the secular chronicle and reflect on whether this or that phenomenon can be taken as an illustration to the topic of our conversation today.
Synonyms
The last and much needed part remains. How to replace "outrage" with synonyms? The answer follows:
- scandal;
- hooliganism;
- brawl;
- arbitrariness;
- self-will;
- despotism.
An attentive reader will understand that we have taken synonyms for both ordinary behavior that violates social norms and behavior that demonstrates the power of one person over others. As we recall, both this and that are outrageous.