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offender

əˈfɛndər
WordNet
Saint Norbert goes to France and draws many people there with his preaching. Some are offended by what he says and spit in his face. The print has two Latin inscriptions: one above and one below the image.
Saint Norbert goes to France and draws many people there with his preaching. Some are offended by what he says and spit in his face. The print has two Latin inscriptions: one above and one below the image.
  1. (n) offender
    a person who transgresses moral or civil law
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Offender
    One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. "I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) offender
    One who offends; one who transgresses or violates a law, whether human or divine; one who infringes rules and regulations; one who acts contrary to the rights of others, or to social rule or custom; one who displeases or annoys; one who gives offense, or incurs the dislike or resentment of another.
  2. (n) offender
    Synonyms Offender, Delinquent, culprit. Offender differs from delinquent in that a delinquent is, strictly, a negative transgressor, one who neglects to comply with the requirements of the law, whereas an offender is a positive transgressor, one who violates law or social rule. Both are general words, covering the offenses or delinquencies under divine or human laws, social usages, etc.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Offender
    one who offends or injures: a trespasser: a criminal:—fem. Offend′ress
Quotations
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Benjamin Franklin
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
Source Unknown
Leonardo Da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Samuel Butler
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler
Robertson Davies
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
Robertson Davies
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. ob, against, fendĕre, to strike.

Usage in the news

Anti-graffiti program helps juvenile offenders. sungazette.com

Helping hands from the community play a crucial part in an effort to get young offenders back on track. heraldnet.com

36-year-old Romeo Alba (left) is currently is prison according to the Sate of Minnesota's Level 3 Sex Offender website. country103.com

It really doesn't matter to me how the person is "offended". gna.com

Following the directions, a mallet was used to smash the offending corner just enough to allow proper spacing. truckinweb.com

Least Competent Sex Offender And Cuddly Geopolitics And Weather Crimes. mauitime.com

Culling Ideas That May Offend. nytimes.com

When addressing a stranger in Vietnam, how can you be sure not to inadvertently offend them. pbs.org

A preliminary hearing is scheduled to take place next week for a former custodian at a university in Rolla who has been charged with failing to register as a sex offender. therolladailynews.com

Of course, Raj offended everyone so his ad was pulled. citypaper.net

Carl Paladino doesn't mind offending voters. nyc.org

The new clip, for the group's "Push and Shove" single, offended some in the Native American community. hollywoodreporter.com

I didn't mean to offend Burfict. espn.go.com

Tracy Morgan's latest jokes offend the disabled. newstribune.com

Tony Kornheiser did not offend Sally Jenkins. ashingtonpost.com

Usage in scientific papers

IP Peg is a persistent offender, lying well clear of the supposedly less reliable points in both the mass vs. orbital period and mass vs. spectral type diagrams.
A TiO study of the dwarf nova IP Pegasi

Although the randomized response condition yielded higher estimates than the direct question design, the prevalence estimate of offenders obtained with randomized response was only about 50%.
Accounting for self-protective responses in randomized response data from a social security survey using the zero-inflated Poisson model

In some cases, the offending behavior is evident at the level of the bare images of the jiggling beads.
Concentration and Length Dependence of DNA Looping in Transcriptional Regulation

Fig. 17 also shows an example of data that was kept with an offending region highlighted that was removed.
Concentration and Length Dependence of DNA Looping in Transcriptional Regulation

Then between distance ǫ/2 and ǫ of the boundary one linearly interpolates (w.r.t. the radial coordinate on the disc) between the offending 1–form Θf lat + ǫgΨ∗Θsplit and the 1–form Θk+l .
An invariant of link cobordisms from symplectic Khovanov homology

Usage in literature

He doth therefore presuppose indistinctly the very particular church where the brother offending and offended are members. "The Divine Right of Church Government" by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

This levity offended the lady's pride. "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by H. G. Wells

That is a means of acting on the imagination of others without offending anyone's self-love. "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)" by John Holland Rose

Evidently he meant me ill, and this thought offended me. "The Way of a Man" by Emerson Hough

If I offend, 'tis in your ear alone, The malefactor wounds ye to the soul. "The Seven Plays in English Verse" by Sophocles

The words offended him, and yet he could not dispute her right to do as she chose. "Unleavened Bread" by Robert Grant

No submissions were presented to the Committee that sexual offending by juveniles in the South Island had increased to any alarming extent. "Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents" by Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.

Richard, offended with Bertran, gave him a flick on the ear and sent him to the devil with his japes. "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay" by Maurice Hewlett

What had she done to offend him? "Red Pottage" by Mary Cholmondeley

How can I act as not to offend him? "The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1"

Usage in poetry
Good and only good young friend,
Has God, thy Maker, given,
But man, because he could offend
And change to Hell, a Heaven —
The cruel mother of the Loves,
And other Powers offended,
Have stirred my heart, where newly roves
The passion that was ended.
God, the offended God most high,
Ambassadors to rebels sends;
His messengers his place supply,
And Jesus begs us to be friends.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
Which, Reader, will you most decry,
A dirty truth, or polish'd lie?
Leave it to me, and never fear,
I'll not offend the nicest ear.
"At the thought my heart revolteth,
All your tribe offend my senses,
They're an eyesore to my vision,
And a stench unto my nostrils.