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Umbrage vs Crime - What's the difference?

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Umbrage is a related term of crime.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between umbrage and crime

is that umbrage is (obsolete) shadow, shade while crime is (obsolete) that which occasions crime.

As nouns the difference between umbrage and crime

is that umbrage is feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive while crime is (countable) a specific act committed in violation of the law.

As verbs the difference between umbrage and crime

is that umbrage is to displease or cause offense while crime is to commit (s).

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.

    • crime

    English

    (wikipedia crime)

    Noun

  • (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
  • (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
    • Crime doesn’t pay.
  • (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
  • Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
  • (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
  • * Spenser
    • the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

    Synonyms

    * (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminality

    Hyponyms

    * * * * * * *

    Derived terms

    * crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crime

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To commit (s).
  • * 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
    • If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

    See also

    * offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----