Definition of "offension" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) Assault; attack, offensive; offense.

   • … they nourish wicked adultery and much fornication, they fill the world with offensions and bastards, and give great occasion of murdering …
   • 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.