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What (who) is umbrage - definition
umbrage
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If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason. (FORMAL)
He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him.
= take offence
PHRASE: V inflects
Umbrage
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·noun Shadowy resemblance; shadow.
II. Umbrage ·noun Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
III. Umbrage ·noun The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment.
umbrage
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n.
1.
Shade, shadow.
2.
Offence, resentment, suspicion of injury, pique, grudge.
Examples of use of umbrage
1. The protesters took umbrage with those statements.
2. Which brings us to "umbrage," as in "to take umbrage," an idiom meaning "to take offense." Umbrage comes from "shadow," like the much more common "umbrella" (an umbrella is a portable shadow one carries to protect from the sun). "To stand in umbrage" was once a common phrase to mean what we say when we describe someone as "under a cloud." But in more recent years – recent centuries, actually – umbrage is generally something one takes rather than stands under.
3. Perhaps that word umbrage should read resentment or vice versa.
4. The city‘s umbrage relates to another area of Mamila, though.
5. But once you "take" umbrage – where do you put it?