Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Assault; attack.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Assault; attack.

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  • noun obsolete assault; attack

Etymologies

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Old French, from Latin offensio an offense.

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