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† oˈffension Obs.
Also 4–6 -cioun, etc.
[a. OF. offension (13th c., offencioun in Gower Mirour), ad. L. offensiōn-em injury, offence, stumbling-block, etc., n. of action from offendĕre to offend.]
1. Hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; what is offensive or causes disgust; wrong-doing, misdeed, fault: = offence n. 4–7.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iv. 13 (Camb. MS.) But yif þat thow of thy fre wille rather be blemished with myn offencion. c1386― Knt.'s T. 1558 My beerd myn heer..That neuere yet ne felte offensioun Of rasour nor of shere. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxx, He was aferde agayne them of the towne In his person to do offenciowne. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 456 Fylth off carioune..rycht foull off offensioune. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones ii. 190 Thy mercie exceedeth all offension.
2. Stumbling; striking against some obstacle.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iii. Wounds ii. i. 114 Offension or stomblyng, is when one hurteth hymself by occasion of some thynge lyenge in hys way. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 344 For woundes, prickinges and all kyndes of offensions and the swellinges that cum therupon. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. I. viii. 75 The offensions of bodies may happen without any fault, those of the soule cannot.
b. Spiritual stumbling, or the occasion of it.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxi. 7 The tree of offencioun is gold of men sacrefiende. ― Rom. ix. 32 Lo! I putte a stoon of offencioun [1388 -sioun] in Syon, and a stoon of sclaundre. ― 2 Cor. vi. 3 To no man ȝyuynge ony offencioun, that oure mynisterie be not reprouyd. |