umbrage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   offense or annoyance, especially at a perceived slight

   She took umbrage at the suggestion that she had been careless.

From Old French ombrage ('shade, shadow'), from Latin umbraticum, from umbra ('shadow'). The sense of 'offense' arose from the figurative notion of a shadow falling on one, a suspicion or cause for resentment.

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