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Antonyms for umbrage

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uhm-brij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌm brɪdʒ

Definition of umbrage

Origin :
  • early 15c., "shadow, shade," from Middle French ombrage "shade, shadow," from Latin umbraticum, neuter of umbraticus "of or pertaining to shade," from umbra "shade, shadow," from PIE root *andho- "blind, dark" (cf. Sanskrit andha-, Avestan anda- "blind, dark"). Many figurative uses in 17c.; main remaining one is the meaning "suspicion that one has been slighted," first recorded 1610s; hence phrase to take umbrage at, attested from 1670s.
  • noun personal displeasure
Example sentences :
  • Find out what will give most umbrage to your Court, and I will tell you why in my next.
  • Extract from : « The Fortunes Of Glencore » by Charles James Lever
  • A thing looked at with umbrage by the English, by the Dutch.
  • Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • Umbrage went out to see if he could gather any information about a prize-fight.
  • Extract from : « When a Man's Single » by J. M. Barrie
  • Fulkerson added, in concession to the umbrage he detected in March.
  • Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
  • Talleyrand and Fouche were not the only ones who gave him umbrage.
  • Extract from : « An Historical Mystery » by Honore de Balzac
  • Consequently his sense of umbrage on the present occasion was unbounded.
  • Extract from : « Dead Souls » by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
  • Whitaker found his irrelevant trick of umbrage trying in the extreme.
  • Extract from : « Kenny » by Leona Dalrymple
  • The pair disappeared; till, in a few minutes, Tupcombe could discern a horse emerging from a remoter part of the umbrage.
  • Extract from : « A Group of Noble Dames » by Thomas Hardy
  • He never made himself a Creature, but always removed and humbled those that ever gave him any Umbrage.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I » by Karl Ludwig von Pllnitz
  • I shall take no umbrage at the failure of my communications to call forth replies.
  • Extract from : « An Ocean Tramp » by William McFee

Synonyms for umbrage

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