OFFENCE Copy link • OFFENCEDispleasure given, in jury done, injuria (injury done; when perspicuity allows it, the person who does the injury, and the person to whom the injury is done, may be placed in the genitive; else say, injuria alicui illata, injuria ab aliquo illata): offensio, offensa (offence; the former, which one feels or receives; the latter, of which one is guilty) ignominia (general term reproach expressed, whether deserved or not): contumelia (reproach unjustly expressed, insult): molestia (unpleasant, of a thing as burdensome or annoying): dolor (the painful feeling of offence). A grievous offence, injuria acerba; offensio gravis; dolor gravis or acerbus: without offence, sine ulla contumelia. Displeasure received, injury sustained, offensio. To give offence to anyone, offendere aliquem or apud aliquem; in offensionem alicujus incurrere or cadere: I have given great offence to someone, in magna offensa sum apud aliquem: to give great offence by one’s mode of life, esse pessimi exempli: to take offence, offensionem accipere (opposed to offensionem deponere): to take offence at a person or thing, in aliquo or in aliqua re offendere (to have something to object to in a person or thing): fastidire aliquem or aliquid, or in aliqua re (tofeel disgust, to disdain; Vid: Liv., 4, 3, and 34, 5 extr.; Cic., Mil., 16, 42): to avoid offence, offensionem effugere. If I may say so without offence, bona hoc venia tua dixerim; pace tua dixerim. Cause of offending, stumbling block, res mali (pessimi) exempli.