offension

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Assault; attack, offensive; offense.
 * 2) * c. 1517–1587, John Foxe, "The Primitive Church of Rome", reprinted in The Acts and Monuments [...] with a preliminary diss. by George Townsend (1841), page 84:
 * [...] they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication, they fill the world with offensions and bastards, and give great occasion of murdering [...]
 * 1) * a. 1955, Karl Marx (original author), Manuskripte über die polnische Frage: (1863–1864), Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG (2020, ISBN 9783112318614), page 183:
 * Napoleon had possessed himself of those very points, which would serve him as a basis of offension against Prussia and Austria. Nicholas acted in his spirit, when he fortified those points by a chain of fortresses.