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Offend vs Umbrage - What's the difference?

offend | umbrage |

In lang=en terms the difference between offend and umbrage

is that offend is (transitive)  to transgress or violate a law or moral requirement while umbrage is to shade.

As verbs the difference between offend and umbrage

is that offend is (transitive)  to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult while umbrage is to displease or cause offense.

As a noun umbrage is

feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

offend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive)  To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}
  • (intransitive)  To feel or become offended, take insult.
  • (transitive)  To physically harm, pain.
  • (transitive)  To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
  • (intransitive)  To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
  • (transitive)  To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
  • (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical)  To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
  • * 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,
  • "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
  • * New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
  • "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * offendedly * offendedness * offender * reoffend

    umbrage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
  • * , Episode 16
  • --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
  • * {{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
  • [...] 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.

    Synonyms

    * (feeling of anger or annoyance) annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique * (feeling of doubt) suspicion

    Derived terms

    * take umbrage * umbrageous

    Verb

    (umbrag)
  • To displease or cause offense.
  • To shade.