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单词 offensable
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offensableadj.

Forms: late Middle English offensable; Scottish pre-1700 offensabill.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French offenssable, offensable.
Etymology: < Middle French offenssable offensive (14th cent.), offensable that which constitutes a threat for someone (1587; 1530 in sense ‘able to be offended or wounded’; French offensable) < offenser offence v. + -able -able suffix. Compare offensible adj.
Obsolete.
Offensive, aggressive.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective]
offensable1489
offensivec1555
aggressive1695
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. v. 176 Deffensable werre is preuyleged moche more than is werre offensable [Fr. loffensiue].
1590 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) I. 316 That the persuit heirfor be the law suld na wey be offensabill to the saidis burrowes but that thai micht suit redres herein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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