Talk:offend

These two senses were removed after verification process:

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strike against; to attack; to assail; to cause pain.
   • 1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Pellauer, Notebooks for an Ethics, University of Chicago Press, Page 221,

     "Since I am his, my pain, which I propose to him, is his pain, It cannot offend him."

2. (transitive, obsolete) To oppose or obstruct in duty;
   • 1977, Council of Legal Education, West Indian Law Journal, Council of Legal Education, Page 98,

     "[...] it would offend and obstruct the doing of justice were the prosecution to be bound by it so as to hamper the judge in his task of ascertaining the truth."

--Hekaheka 15:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests for verification - kept

Kept. See archived discussion of June 2008. 06:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

(intransitive verb): break a law

(intransitive verb): to violate a law or code of conduct
He offended against the club's rules of proper dress.
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:44, 19 January 2020 (UTC)