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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
offend .
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Examples
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His minions communicated the king's pleasure that GM consider discontinuing its GMC brand, maker of pickups and SUVs that offendeth the royal eye -- though these vehicles earn GM's fattest profit margins.
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It's Lent, and one of the great penitential phrases of the Psalms will be in all our minds – 'Who can tell how oft he offendeth?
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On the pain his words have caused: Scripture says he who offendeth in words is not a perfect man.
The Minister Speaks 2008
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But, if a man be wroth whenever he seeth in his wife aught that offendeth him, there can be no fellowship between them; nor can any hit it off with them who is not magnanimous and long suffering; and unless a man bear with his wife and requite her foul doing with forgiveness, he shall get no good of her conversation.
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Q “What reckest thou of two things, one whereof is pleasing to God and earneth future reward for him who practiseth it and the other offendeth Allah and entaileth lawful punishment upon the doer?” — “Expound to me these two things and make me to apprehend them, that I may speak concerning them.”
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It's Lent, and one of the great penitential phrases of the Psalms will be in all our minds – 'Who can tell how oft he offendeth?
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But know thou that Oath has a son, one nameless and handless and footless, Yet without feet he pursues, without hands he seizes, and wholly He shall destroy the race and the house of the man who offendeth.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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And if any man offend the prince, he punisheth it extremely, not onely in the person that offendeth, but also in his children, and in as many as are of his kin.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He that offendeth the second time hath his nose cut off, and is burnt in the forehead with a hot yron.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Here is noted, that a judge were better be a briber than a respecter of persons; for a corrupt judge offendeth not so lightly as a facile.
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