“We never meant to be offensive, but we apologize if any offence was caused,” they told the Sun.
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Is it really an offence against democracy for a government to enforce its own commitments upon its own MPs?
Stephen Harper is Respecting Voter Wishes by Not Reopening the Abortion Debate|David Frum|April 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It is the first offence of which Mr Taylor has ever been accused.
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Exile was then imposed as a penance on Columba, whose act had been the original cause of offence.
Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II)|Richard Bagwell
The offence of Dreiser is that he has disdained this revelation and gone back to the Greeks.
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken
At the age of 16 he was charged with the offence of vagrancy, convicted and discharged.
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The penalty in the first case, was, it was felt, altogether out of proportion to the offence.
Social Rights And Duties|Leslie Stephen
An offence against table-manners is banned like an attack on the Church.
The New Society|Walther Rathenau
British Dictionary definitions for offence
offence
USoffense
/ (əˈfɛns) /
noun
a violation or breach of a law, custom, rule, etc
any public wrong or crime
a nonindictable crime punishable on summary conviction
annoyance, displeasure, or resentment
give offenceorgive offence to someoneto cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
take offenceto feel injured, humiliated, or offended
a source of annoyance, displeasure, or anger
attack; assault
archaicinjury or harm
the offense (ˈɒfɛns) American football
the team that has possession of the ball
the members of a team that play in such circumstances