Definition of offence

"offence" in the noun sense

1. offense, offence, offensive

the action of attacking an enemy

2. offense, offence

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

3. umbrage, offense, offence

a feeling of anger caused by being offended

"he took offence at my question"

4. discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity

a lack of politeness a failure to show regard for others wounding the feelings or others

5. offense, offence

a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

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Quotations for offence

The offender never pardons. [ George Herbert ]

His great offence is dead,
And deeper than oblivion do we bury
The incensing relics of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

A small unkindness is a great offence. [ Hannah More ]

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive.
Than for offence to ask it. [ Thomson ]

Love the offender, yet detest the offence. [ Pope ]

All's not offence that indiscretion finds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where the offence is, let the great axe fall. [ William Shakespeare ]

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. [ Sir John Davies ]

What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]

Who fears to offend takes the first step to please. [ Gibber ]

We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love. [ Rowland Hill ]

It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to appease. [ Grillparzer ]

The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it. [ Hazlitt ]

Have a rule apportioning to each offence its appropriate penalty. [ Horace ]

Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. [ Proverb ]

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. [ Bible ]

A conscience void of offence before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]

We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence. [ Madame Deluzy ]

In such a time as this it is not meet that every nice offence should bear its comment. [ William Shakespeare ]

When any one has offended me. I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. [ Descartes ]

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. [ Phaedr ]

If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]

A Bellerophon's letter, (i.e. a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence).

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself - if I may be allowed the expression - than to itself. [ Greville ]

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof if carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. [ Greville ]

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]

Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]

We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]

offence in Scrabble®

The word offence is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters offence:

OFFENCE
(110 = 60 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

offence

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word offence

OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
(68 = 18 + 50)
OFFENCE
(67 = 17 + 50)
OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
(66 = 16 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In offence

OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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offence in Words With Friends™

The word offence is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters offence:

OFFENCE
(116 = 81 + 35)
OFFENCE
(116 = 81 + 35)
OFFENCE
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

offence

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word offence

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In offence

OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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OFFENCE
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COFFEE
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Words within the letters of offence

2 letter words in offence (5 words)

3 letter words in offence (9 words)

4 letter words in offence (2 words)

5 letter words in offence (1 word)

6 letter words in offence (1 word)

7 letter words in offence (1 word)

offence + 1 blank (1 word)

offence + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence offence

Words that start with offence (2 words)

Words with offence in them (2 words)

Words that end with offence (2 words)

Word Growth involving offence

Shorter words in offence

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Longer words containing offence

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