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umbrage
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{n}
synonyms: dudgeon ???
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Definition:1. anger or annoyance from something one finds offensive2. [obsolete] a shadow
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But Mr Pecksniff, without taking umbrage at his bearing put a card in his hand, and bade him take that upstairs,
Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
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His only brother showed some of the same native stuff, but of thinner and sourer quality. He became an abbé and a saint, peevish, umbrageous, and as excessively devout as his more famous brother was excessively the opposite.John Morley. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, Vol I
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his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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nothing in nature could be of a beautifuller cut; then, the dark umbrage of the downy spring moss that over-arched it,
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749)
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