take exception

== English == === Verb === take exception (third-person singular simple present takes exception, present participle taking exception, simple past took exception, past participle taken exception) To take offense; to object or protest. [with to] 1898 July 20, Percival A. Nairne, letter, published in the Lancet of 1898 December 10, page 1575: 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. To object to; to disagree with. ==== Translations ====