Now with a moment to sit and reflect, Langdon felt a tinge(colour slightly?) of amazement as the news of the Pope’s murder finally registered in his mind
The writer mixed up "twinge" and "tinge", and that is the charitable interpretation of his error. You can't feel a tinge of anything. Your mood can have a tinge of something, maybe, bit you can't feel a tinge.
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The writer mixed up "twinge" and "tinge", and that is the charitable interpretation of his error. You can't feel a tinge of anything. Your mood can have a tinge of something, maybe, bit you can't feel a tinge.
A very low level of a feeling. e.g "a tinge of sadness"
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tinge?q=tinge_1
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They are also left with a tinge of remorse that they couldn't have kept Lee, too.