umbrage

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From Latin umbrāticus (in the shade), from umbra (shadow", "shade)

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Singular
umbrage

Plural
umbrages

umbrage (plural umbrages)

  1. Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
  2. Feeling of doubt.
  3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
  4. (obsolete) shadow, shade
    • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 1
      [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

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Infinitive
to umbrage

Third person singular
umbrages

Simple past
umbraged

Past participle
umbraged

Present participle
umbraging

to umbrage (third-person singular simple present umbrages, present participle umbraging, simple past and past participle umbraged)

  1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
  2. (transitive) To shade.

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