Definition of offense

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Offense (n.) Alt. of Offenc.

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Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
Seduction :: Seduction (n.) The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity..
Quarterstaff :: Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end..
Scandalously :: Scandalously (adv.) In a manner to give offense; shamefully.
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Offence :: Offence (n.) See Offense.
Scandal :: Scandal (n.) Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace..
Enormity :: Enormity (n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity..
Misdoing :: Misdoing (n.) A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing..
Perpetrator :: Perpetrator (n.) One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime..
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..
Affrontiveness :: Affrontiveness (n.) The quality that gives an affront or offense.
Feticide :: Feticide (n.) The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.
Heresy :: Heresy (n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained..
Spar :: Spar (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Accomplice :: Accomplice (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory..
Trip :: Trip (n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail..
Crime :: Crime (n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong..
Indecency :: Indecency (n.) That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
Peccavi :: Peccavi () I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.
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