Meaning of offension | Babel Free

Definitions

Assault; attack, offensive; offense.

obsolete

Examples

“… they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication, they fill the world with offensions and bastards, and give great occasion of murdering …”

“Napoleon had possessed himself of those very points, which would serve him as a basis of offension against Prussia and Austria. Nicholas acted in his spirit, when he fortified those points by a chain of fortresses.”

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