umbrage
noun/ˈʌmbrɪdʒ/
/ˈʌmbrɪdʒ/
Word Originlate Middle English (originally referring to shade or shadow): from Old French, from Latin umbra ‘shadow’. An early sense was ‘shadowy outline’, giving rise to ‘ground for suspicion’, which led to the current notion of ‘offence’.
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See umbrage in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytake umbrage (at something)
- (formal or humorous) to feel offended, hurt or upset by something, often without a good reason synonym offence (2)
- He took umbrage at her remarks.
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