outrager

English

Etymology

outrage +‎ -er

Noun

outrager (plural outragers)

1. One who outrages.
   • 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 307:

     [T]hese giants are ever heretics and blasphemers, robbers and oppressors, outragers of the female sex, and scoffers at regular authority.

French

Etymology

From outrage +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.tʁa.ʒe/

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Verb

outrager

1. to offend greatly, insult
2. to outrage

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written outrage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of outrager (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	outrager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	outrageant /u.tʁa.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		outragé /u.tʁa.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	outrage /u.tʁaʒ/	outrages /u.tʁaʒ/	outrage /u.tʁaʒ/	outrageons /u.tʁa.ʒɔ̃/	outragez /u.tʁa.ʒe/	outragent /u.tʁaʒ/
	imperfect	outrageais /u.tʁa.ʒɛ/	outrageais /u.tʁa.ʒɛ/	outrageait /u.tʁa.ʒɛ/	outragions /u.tʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	outragiez /u.tʁa.ʒje/	outrageaient /u.tʁa.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	outrageai /u.tʁa.ʒe/	outrageas /u.tʁa.ʒa/	outragea /u.tʁa.ʒa/	outrageâmes /u.tʁa.ʒam/	outrageâtes /u.tʁa.ʒat/	outragèrent /u.tʁa.ʒɛʁ/
	future	outragerai /u.tʁaʒ.ʁe/	outrageras /u.tʁaʒ.ʁa/	outragera /u.tʁaʒ.ʁa/	outragerons /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/	outragerez /u.tʁaʒ.ʁe/	outrageront /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	outragerais /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	outragerais /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	outragerait /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɛ/	outragerions /u.tʁa.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	outrageriez /u.tʁa.ʒə.ʁje/	outrageraient /u.tʁaʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	outrage /u.tʁaʒ/	outrages /u.tʁaʒ/	outrage /u.tʁaʒ/	outragions /u.tʁa.ʒjɔ̃/	outragiez /u.tʁa.ʒje/	outragent /u.tʁaʒ/
	imperfect2	outrageasse /u.tʁa.ʒas/	outrageasses /u.tʁa.ʒas/	outrageât /u.tʁa.ʒa/	outrageassions /u.tʁa.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	outrageassiez /u.tʁa.ʒa.sje/	outrageassent /u.tʁa.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	outrage /u.tʁaʒ/	—	outrageons /u.tʁa.ʒɔ̃/	outragez /u.tʁa.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “outrager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.