Offence

Definition: Offence

Offence

Noun

1. The action of attacking the enemy.

2. The team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score.

3. A feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question".

4. A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others.

5. A crime less serious than a felony.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "offence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Bible

Finance

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Offence

Disorder

Disorderly person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor.

Crosswords: Offence

German (Beleidigung).

No offence, but even if I felt like talking, it wouldn't be to a tree (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

No offence son. (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks)

The Offence (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beyond the Call of Duty: Supererogation, Obligation, and Offence (Suny Series in Ethical Theory) (reference)

• Her Second Offence (reference)

• Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence (Parkes-Wiener Series) (reference)

• Jesus Vol. 1: The Rock of Offence (reference)

• Tasmanian Police Call Centre Project - Offence Reporting Process [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Offence (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• First Offence (reference)

• No Offence Meant...Plenty Taken (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The title of the offender, and the number of his followers, make no difference in the offence, unless it be to aggravate it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference)

The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. (reference)

Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She is not to pay for the offence of others, by being held below the level of those with whom she is brought up.

Your pardon, once again, good sir, if my speech give the shadow of offence.

If it is Jean Valjean, it is a second offence.

I never suffer a word to pass that may look like reflection, or possibly give the least offence even to those who are most ready to take it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Hong Kong

The Securities and Futures Legislation (Provisions of False Information) Ordinance, which made false reporting to the Securities and Futures Commission and other regulators a criminal offence, was enacted in July 2000. In August 2000, the U.S. SEC recognized the Growth Enterprises Market (GEM), a high-tech market established in late 1999, as a designated offshore securities market and allowed GEM stocks to be sold in and outside the United States to U.S. and non-U.S. residents. (references)

Women

United Kingdom

A new law prohibits defendants from conducting cross-examinations of complainants in rape and sexual offence trials. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "offence": be slow to take offence ♦ capital offence ♦ cognizable offence ♦ commit an offence ♦ criminal offence ♦ disorderly persons offence ♦ first offence ♦ give offence ♦ legal offence ♦ lesser offence ♦ make amends for an offence ♦ minor offence ♦ mortal offence ♦ not to take offence ♦ parking offence ♦ penal offence ♦ petty offence ♦ political offence ♦ punishable offence ♦ regulatory offence ♦ right of way offence ♦ second offence ♦ sexual offence ♦ statutory offence ♦ swift to take offence ♦ take offence ♦ traffic offence ♦ weapons of offence. Additional references.

Beginning with "offence": offence-based, offence-related, offence-representation, offence-retribution, offence-specific, offence-vengeance.

Ending with "offence": pre-offence, self-offence.

Containing "offence": non-offence-related.

Afrikaans

aanstoot (commotion, indignation, jog, nudge, scandal). (various references)

Albanian

ofendim (grievance, indignity, injury, insult, wrong), sulm (aggression, assault, attack, cannonade, charge, dash, descent, drive, hit, inroad, mugging, offensive, onfall, onset, onslaught, push, raid, razzia, rush, strike, thrust), shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, lap, obtrusion, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), kundërvajtje (default, delinquency, infraction, violation), krim (crime, felony, malfeasance, misdeed, villainy), keqbërje (caper, evildoing, malediction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, wrongdoing), fyerje (affront, contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage, vituperation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هجوم (aggression, assault, attack, blow, dash, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, pounce, push, raid, rush, swoop), ‏غضب إستياء, ‏جنحة (fault, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, petty crime, trespass), ‏جريمة (crime, criminality, felony, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, perpetration, villainy), ‏إهانة (affront, crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, mortification, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage), ‏إساءة (hurt, outrage), ‏إزعاج (annoyance, annoying, bother, botheration, discomfort, disquiet, disruption, disturbance, harassing, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, loudness, mischievousness, molestation, movement, nuisance, patter, trouble), ‏إثم (debt, delinquency, error, evil, guilt, guiltiness, iniquity, misdeed, sin, transgression, viciousness, wrongdoing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскърбление (abuse, affront, contumely, flout, galling, hurt, insult, knock, outrage), обида (affront, cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), настъпление (advance), нарушение (aberration, breach, breaker, breaking, contravention, defection, dereliction, disturbance, entrenchment, fault, foul, infraction, infringement, malpractice, offense, perpetration, transgression, violation), нападение (aggression, assault, attack, foray, incursion, offense, onfall, onset, strike, thrust), атака (attack, drive, fit, onrush, onset, onslaught, rush), престъпление (crime, delict, delinquency, fact, foul play, iniquity, misdeed, outrage, transgression, wrongdoing), постъпка (act, action, deed, proceeding, step, thing). (various references)

Chinese 

进�"� (Offense), 犯罪 (crime). (various references)

Czech

urážka (affront, brickbat, contumely, injury, insult, outrage, violence), provinìní (misconduct, wrongdoing), pohoršení, přestupek (minor offence, petty crime, sin, transgression), útok (aggression, assault, attack, brunt, charge, descent, offensive, onset, onslaught, raid, rush, storm, strike). (various references)

Danish

lovovertraedelse, lovovertrædelse, forseelse (misfeasance). (various references)

Dutch

strafbaar feit (fact constituting an offence, felony, misdemeanour, offense, punishable act), misdrijf (crime), insubordinatie, inbreuk (encroachment). (various references)

Esperanto

indigno (scandal). (various references)

Finnish

verorikos, verorikkomus, veropetos, rikkomus (foul, misdemeanour), rike (misdemeanour), pahennus (reproach), loukkaus (affront, insult). (various references)

French

offense, infraction (criminal offence, offense, punishable offence), délit (criminal offence, offense, punishable offence). (various references)

German

Straftat (criminal offense, punishable act), strafbare Handlung (legal offence), Steuerdelikt (tax offenseUS), deliktische Handlung (crime, criminal act, criminal offence, offense, punishable act, punishable offence), Delikt (crime, delict, offense), Beleidigung (abuse, affront, defamation, indignity, insult, libel, offense, scathe, slander, slur), Angriff (access, aggression, assail, assault, attack, charge, offense, onset, onslaught, pounce, raid, strike, ward, whammy). (various references)

Greek 

παράβαση (contravention, infraction, infringement, transgression, trespass, violation), αδίκημα (malpractice, misdeed, tort, wrong). (various references)

Hebrew 

תקל�" (accident, fault, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, incident, jam, mischance, misfortune, mishap, obstacle), של (error, fault), פשע (crime, felony, misdeed, sin, transgression, vice, villainy), פ�'יע�" (blow, damage, detriment, harm, hit, hurt, impact, incidence, injury, insult, shot), עלבון (affront, humiliation, insult, opprobrium, umbrage), עוון (crime, evil, iniquity, misdemeanor, sin, vice), עבר�" (adultery, contravention, crime, infringement, malfeasance, sin, transgression, trespass), אשם (accused, blame, blameworthy, culpable, fault, guilt, guilty, sin, trespass), �"תקפ�" (assault, attack, offensive, onfall, onset, sortie, thrust), �"סתערות (assault, attack, dash, offensive, onfall, onrush, onslaught, rush, surge). (various references)

Hungarian

támadás (access, aggression, assault, attack, blitz, brunt, feint, flanker, inroad, invasion, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, push, raid, set to). (various references)

Icelandic

gremjast (be indignant, be indignant with, be irritated, take offence at). (various references)

Indonesian

serangan (bout, inroad, onrush, onset), pelanggaran (abridgement, breach, contravention, encroachment, infringement, violation), hinaan (insulting, opprobrium). (various references)

Italian

reato (crime, offense), infrazione (breach, breaking, infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, trespass, violation), delitto (crime, delict, murder, offense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

犯行 (crime, criminal act), 罪過 (fault), 立腹 (anger, rage, taking offense), �"�め (attack), 差し障り (hindrance), オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざいか (commodity, crime, fault, goods on hand, guilt, offense, property, punishment, stock), さしさわり (hindrance), せめ (attack, blame, persecution, responsibility), りっぷく (anger, rage, taking offense), オフェンス (offense), は�"�"う (circulation, clan school, counteroffensive, crime, criminal act, daimyo, defiance, distribution, feudal lord, han school, hostility, insubordination, opposition, printing, promulgation, publishing, rebellion, resistance, sealling). (various references)

Korean 

위반 (infringement, Offense, Violating, Violation). (various references)

Manx

sneih (crossness, umbrage, vexation), snee (crossness, offend, vexation), frioggan (barb, beard, beard of hook, bristle, dander, fin, offend). (various references)

Norwegian

ergre seg over (resent, take exception to, take offence at). (various references)

Papiamen

desobediensia. (various references)

Pig Latin

offenceay.(various references)

Portuguese

delito (crime, delict, delinquency, fault, guilt, malpractice, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, transgression). (various references)

Romanian

ofensivã (aggression, attack, foray, offensive, raid), ofensã (cut, humiliation, indignity, injury, mortification, sin, slap, slur, wound), pacoste (blight, calamity, curse, cuss, hanger-on, nuisance, pain, pest, pestilence, plague), pãcat (error, guilt, mistake, peccancy, sin, trespass), nãpastã (blight, calamity, calumny, curse, disaster, injustice, pest, plague, slander, wrong), jignire (abuse, affront, cut, humiliation, hurt, injury, insult, rub, wound, wrong), insultã (abuse, affront, contumely, dirt, hurt, insult, invective, slap, slur), gafã (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, break, howler, infelicity), delict (crime, delict, delinquency, malpractice, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, trespass), crimã (crime, delinquency, felony, homicide, maleficence, misdeed, murder, outrage, removal, sin), blestem (ban, blasphemy, calamity, cancer, curse, damn, damnation, execration, hardship, imprecation, malediction, perdition), atac (access, apoplexy, assault, attack, charge, dash, fit, go, inroad, jump off, offensive, onset, paroxysm, storm, stroke, touch), încãlcare (contravention, encroachment, infraction, infringement, inroad, invasion, violation). (various references)

Russian 

нарушение (contravention, defection, dereliction, dislocation, disruption, disturbance, entrenchment, infraction, infringement, lesion, offense, subversion, transgression, violation). (various references)

Scottish

oilbheum (reproach), sraon (dudgeon, stumble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offense, outrage, pique, umbrage, wound), spoticanje (stumble), negodovanje (deprecation, negation, outcry, peeve), napad (aggression, assault, attack, attempt, bout, broadside, offense, offensive, onfall, push, strike, thrust, touch). (various references)

Spanish

delito (crime, delinquencies, felony, go by, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, pass). (various references)

Swedish

förseelse (delinquency, error, lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, tort, wrongdoing), förolämpning (abuse, affront, insult, libel, offense, snub), förnärmelse (abuse, insult, offense), anstöt (indignation, offense, scandal, umbrage). (various references)

Turkish

tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, encroachment, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, invasion, offense, outrage, rape, trespass, violence), suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, delinquency, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), saldırı (aggression, assault, attack, charge, dash, invasion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, on-slaught, pounce, raid, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, thrust), kâlbini kırma (breaking one's heart, offense), kırılma (break, breakage, breaking, fracture, offense, refracting, refraction, refractive, rupture, smash, split), gücenme (displeasure, huff, offense, resentment, tiff, umbrage, vexation). (various references)

Turkmen 

nadyllyk (insult), цяke (injury). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумнів (challenge, demur, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, impeachment, misdoubt, offense, qualm, query, question, scruple), кривда (affront, offense), камінь спотикання (offense), образа (abuse, affront, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), невіра (disbelief, infidelity, offense, unbelief), наступ (advance, attack, offense, offensive, push), напад (assault, attack, foray, hijacking, hold up, insult, offense, onfall, onrush, onset, onslaught), зневіра (offense), злочин (crime, misdeed, offense, perpetration, wickedness), проступок (offense), провина (blame, defalcation, delinquency, error, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misconduct, offense, peccancy, shortcoming, sin, transgression, wickedness, wrong doing), правопорушення (delict, delinquency, misfeasance, offense, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrong doing), порушення закону (non-observance, offense), дисциплінарний проступок (offense). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thế tấn công sự xúc phạm, tội (delinquency, wrongdoing), sự phạm tội (criminality, delinquency, offending, sinfulness), sự l� m mất lòng sự vi phạm luật lệ, sự l� m bực mình (offending, vexation). (various references)

Welsh

trosedd (breach, crime, transgression), tramgwydd (stumbling), pechod (sin), cw+l (wrong), cawdd (affliction, wrath). (various references)

commissum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "offence": offences. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Offence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: effiency, ofence, offemce, offenced, offenee, orfence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coffee.

-2 letters: fence.

-3 letters: coff, cone, once.

-4 letters: cee, con, eff, eon, fee, fen, foe, fon, nee, off, one.

-5 letters: ef, en, ne, no, oe, of, on.

+1 letter: offences.

+2 letters: offscreen.

+4 letters: affectioned, coefficient, interoffice.

+5 letters: affectionate, coefficients, counteroffer, effectuation, efflorescent, efflorescing, forcefulness, noneffective.