Affront vs Umbrage - What's the difference?
affront | umbrage |
To insult intentionally, especially openly.
* Addison
To meet defiantly; to confront.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
* Holland
* Shakespeare
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
* , Episode 16
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VI
, passage=If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.}}
Feeling of doubt.
Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
(obsolete) shadow, shade
* 1602 , , act V scene 1
To displease or cause offense.
To shade.
As nouns the difference between affront and umbrage
is that affront is while umbrage is feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.As a verb umbrage is
to displease or cause offense.affront
English
(wikipedia affront)Verb
(en verb)- How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
- to affront death
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
- All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Such behavior is an affront to society.
Synonyms
* See alsoumbrage
English
Noun
(en noun)- --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
- [...] 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.
