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Webster 1913 Edition


Umbrage

Um′brage

(ŭm′brā̍j; 48)
,
Noun.
[F.
ombrage
shade, suspicion, umbrage, L.
umbraticus
belonging to shade, fr.
umbra
a shade. Cf.
Umber
,
Umbratic
.]
1.
Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
Where highest woods, impenetrable
To star or sunlight, spread their
umbrage
broad.
Milton.
2.
Shadowy resemblance; shadow.
[Obs.]
The opinion carries no show of truth nor
umbrage
of reason on its side.
Woodward.
3.
The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one’s light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment.
Which gave
umbrage
to wiser than myself.
Evelyn.
Persons who feel most
umbrage
from the overshadowing aristocracy.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Umbrage

UM'BRAGE

,
Noun.
[L. umbra, a shade.]
1.
A shade; a screen of trees; as the umbrage of woods.
2.
Shadow; shade; slight appearance.
The opinion carries no show of truth nor umbrage of reason on its side. [See Shadow.]
3.
Suspicion of injury; offense; resentment. The court of France took umbrage at the conduct of spain.

Definition 2024


umbrage

umbrage

English

Noun

umbrage (countable and uncountable, plural umbrages)

  1. Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 16
      --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI:
      If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.
  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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Verb

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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Middle French

Noun

umbrage m (plural umbrages)

  1. shadow