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taken exception

taken exception is the past participle of take exception.

Meaning of 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.
  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

Questions about taken exception

What is taken exception the past participle of?
Taken exception is the past participle of take exception.

Words near taken exception in the dictionary

  1. taken down
  2. taken down a notch
  3. taken down a peg
  4. taken easy
  5. taken effect
  6. taken exception
  7. taken fire
  8. taken five
  9. taken flight
  10. taken for
  11. taken for a drive

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