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What does take exception mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word take exception? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (often with the preposition to) To take offense; to object or protest.
  2. To object to; to disagree with.
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One thing they do take exception to, though, is being moved.
Well, I'm sure some journalists would take exception to that and say that they're not partisans of one side or the other.
I would not take exception to a member discreetly sucking a peppermint or a throat lozenge, but it should go no further than that.
I am astonished that you should take exception to an obviously Platonic enthusiasm.
The first one suggests that Pascalian reasoners are manipulative egoists whom God might take exception to, and they won't be rewarded after all.
While we're no exception, we do take exception to those who think this is the beginning of the end of business on the Internet as we know it.

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