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Latest comment: 4 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic (intransitive verb): break a law
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- (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."
- 1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, David Pellauer, Notebooks for an Ethics, University of Chicago Press, Page 221,
- (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."
- 1977, Council of Legal Education, West Indian Law Journal, Council of Legal Education, Page 98,
--Hekaheka 15:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Kept. See archived discussion of June 2008. 06:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
(intransitive verb): break a law
[edit](intransitive verb): to violate a law or code of conduct He offended against the club's rules of proper dress. Microsoft® Encarta® 2009