umbridge

Noun

umbrage (countable and uncountable, plural umbrages)

1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
   • Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser

   Synonyms:

   annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique

2. A feeling of doubt.

   Synonyms:

   suspicion

3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
   • It was a relief to change the cheerful meadow for the dark umbrage of the forest which they now entered.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 325
4. (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
   • […] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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