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Word of the Week: Umbrage

05.20.2007

umbrage [uhm-brij]

–noun
1. offense; annoyance; displeasure: to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; to take umbrage at someone's rudeness.

2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like.

3. leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.

4. shade or shadows, as cast by trees.

5. a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < OF; see UMBRA, -AGE]

In A Sentence
"Burr finally took umbrage, and challenged him to a duel."

- Richard A. Samuelson, "Alexander Hamilton: American", Commentary, June 1999

 

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, ? Random House, Inc. 2006.

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