different between umbrage vs transgression

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 Old French transgression, from Late Latin tr?nsgressi?, from Latin tr?nsgressus (perfect active participle of tr?nsgredior (“I step across”)) + -i?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æns??????n/

Noun

transgression (countable and uncountable, plural transgressions)

1. A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
2. An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
3. A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

Translations

French

Noun

transgression f (plural transgressions)

1. transgression (violation)