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To take exception. To feel offended; to find fault with.
“Her manner was so … respectful, that I could not take exception to this reproof.”—Farjeon.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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