take exception

Verb

take exception (third-person singular simple present takes exception, present participle taking exception, simple past took exception, past participle taken exception)

1. To take offense; to object or protest.
   • I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists.
   • I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.
2. To object to; to disagree with.
   • A correspondent of The American has taken exception to the use, in a recent paragraph in this column, of the word “electrocution.” The writer of the paragraph referred to is conscious that the word, like other etymological hybrids, lacks euphony and consistency; but during the formative period...1890 August 23, “Weekly notes”, in The American, volume 524, Robert Ellison, page 370