"offension" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin offensio (“an offense”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro}} Old French [Term?], {{der|en|la|offensio||an offense}} Latin offensio (“an offense”) Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} offension
  1. (obsolete) Assault; attack, offensive; offense. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-offension-en-noun-u35pVbDN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "c. 1517–1587, John Foxe, \"The Primitive Church of Rome\", reprinted in The Acts and Monuments … with a preliminary diss. by George Townsend (1841), page 84",
          "text": "… they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication, they fill the world with offensions and bastards, and give great occasion of murdering …"
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          "ref": "a. 1955, Karl Marx (original author), Manuskripte über die polnische Frage: (1863–1864), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2020), page 183",
          "text": "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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