different between umbrage vs indignation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ombrage (“umbrage”), from Old French ombrage, from Latin umbr?ticus (“in the shade”), from umbra (“shadow, shade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.b??d?/

Noun

umbrage (countable and uncountable, plural umbrages)

1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

   Synonyms: annoyance, displeasure, odium, offense, resentment, huff, miff, peeve, pique
2. A feeling of doubt.

   Synonym: suspicion

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 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.

Derived terms

• take umbrage
• umbrageous

Translations

Verb

umbrage (third-person singular simple present umbrages, present participle umbraging, simple past and past participle umbraged)

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.
2. (transitive) To shade.

Translations

Middle French

Noun

umbrage m (plural umbrages)

1. shadow

English

Etymology

From Middle English indignacioun, borrowed from Old French indignation, from Latin indign?ti?, from indignor (“to scorn, resent”), from indignus (“unworthy, not fitting”), from in- (“not”) + dignus (“worthy, appropriate”). Attested since ca. 1374. Doublet of indignatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

indignation (countable and uncountable, plural indignations)

1. An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
2. A self-righteous anger or disgust.

Related terms

• deign
• dignify
• indign
• indignant
• undignified

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indign?ti?, indign?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.di.?a.sj??/

Noun

indignation f (plural indignations)

1. Indignation

Related terms

• indigne
• indignement
• indigner
• indignité

Further reading

• “indignation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

indignation

1. Alternative form of indignacioun