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Quotation dates: 1400, 1475-1552
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Offensio(u)n(e, n. Also: -tioun. [ME. (Chaucer) and e.m.E. offencion, offensio(u)n, etc., OF. offension, L. offensio.] = Offence n. in various senses.a. In one's offensioun, in (physical) attack or assault on one. b. The fact of being annoying, offensive or disgusting. c. Injury, wrong; trangression, sin. d. In Nisbet, after Wyclif: Spiritual stumbling or the occasion of it.a. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1504 (D).
In quhois offensioun with all payne Eneas roseb. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vii. 456.
Fylth off carioune … rycht foull off offensiounec. 1533 Gau 51/10.
The greit offensione quhilk we dw daylie aganis God in our sinful liff 1538–41 Aberd. B. Rec. XVI. (Jam.).
Gif ony … war convict in ony wrang strublens or offensioun done to ony persoun c1552 Lynd. Mon. 60.
God sparit nothir man, woman nor boye Bot all wer brynt for thare offentiound. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rom. ix. 32.
And thai offendit aganes the staan of offensioun c1520-c1535 Id. 2 Cor. vi. 3.
Geve we to na man ony offensionn
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