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take exception

verb

Definitions

  1. To take offense

    To take offense; to object or protest.

    • I think he took exception to the joke about environmentalists.
    • I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction.
    • I am sorry to learn that the senior medical staff of the Dreadnought Hospital take exception to portions of Sir Henry Burdett's letter […] which was published in the Times of July 11th.

  2. To object to

    To object to; to disagree with.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA