offension

Assault; attack, offensive; offense.

Noun

  1. 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 … - c. 1517–1587, John Foxe, "The Primitive Church of Rome", reprinted in The...
    • 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. - a....

Origin

From Old French [Term?], from Latin offensio (“an offense”).