noun
definition
One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
definition
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
Examples of offender in a Sentence
The chief offender was not brought to justice until a second punitive expedition in 1899 completed the pacification of the country.
The offender is only treated as a heathen and publican when the purity and safety of the church demand it.
The interruption of preachers when celebrating divine service rendered the offender liable to three months' imprisonment under a statute of the first year of Mary, but Friends generally waited to speak till the service was over.'
Profane cursing and swearing is made punishable by the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which directs the offender to be brought before a justice of the peace, and fined five shillings, two shillings or one shilling, according as he is a gentleman, below the rank of gentleman, or a common labourer, soldier, &c.
Is he a registered sex offender?
If it be the same it indicates that the excommunication had not been final; the offender had been received back.
Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into " the hand of God " as opposed to " the hand of the king."
But as little had been accomplished when the superior court met at Hillsboro, Orange county, in September 1770, the Regulators became desperate again, whipped the chief offender, Colonel Edmund Fanning, and demolished his residence.
Under stress of these preoccupations, however, organic unity of structure went very much to the wall, and Telemaque is a grievous offender against its author's own canons of literary taste.
Where an offence has been committed on the high seas, or aboard ashore, by British seamen or apprentices, the consul makes inquiry on oath, and may send home the offender and witnesses by a British ship, particulars for the Board of Trade being endorsed on the agreement for conveyance.
Tunstall, however, not only dismissed the case, but presented the offender with the rich living of Houghton-le-Spring; and when the accusation was again brought forward, he again protected him.
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The offender took some pans out of a cupboard and filled a saucepan with water and started heating it on the cooker.
It began to be recognized also that stereotyped punishments, such as belong to penal codes, fail to take due account of the particular condition of an offence and the character and circumstances of the offender.
In the law of England sentence of excommunication, upon being properly certified by the bishop, was followed by the writ de excommunicato capiendo for the arrest of the offender.
How closely related some of the Central-American nations were in institutions to the Mexicans appears, not only in their using the same peculiar weapons, but in the similarity of their religious rites; the connexion is evident in such points as the ceremony of marriage by tying together the garments of the couple, or in holding an offender's face over burning chillies as a punishment; the native legends of Central America make mention of the royal ball-play, which was the same as the Mexican game of tlachtli already mentioned.
Criminal jurisdiction over foreigners is exercised by the consuls of the fifteen powers possessing such right by treaty, according to the law of the country of the offender.
The Admiralty was a great offender.
The acts themselves must be consulted for the procedure, beginning with the taking of samples and ending with the conviction of an offender.
As far back as the Paraclete days, he had counted as chief among his foes Bernard of Clairvaux, in whom was incarnated the principle of fervent and unhesitating faith, from which rational inquiry like his was sheer revolt, and now this uncompromising spirit was moving, at the instance of others, to crush the growing evil in the person of the boldest offender.
In this account nothing is said of confession; but it would appear that in early days the sins were made known to the congregation, and in notorious cases they would take the initiative and expel the offender.
Maybe because I was half asleep I agreed to consider talking to a sex offender personally.
An egregious violation will result in permanent expulsion of the offender from the list.
When the cashier opened the till the offender pulled a knife from his pocket and threatened the cashier with it.
If the child is under 12 or the offender uses coercion, maximum penalty is 12 years.
The first offender is described as having a tanned complexion and short black hair.
In addition, the offender should be asked to sign the letter, which is then countersigned by a member of staff.
The dialog does occasionally fall into the trap of being overly descriptive with the worst offender being during Gary Russell's cameo appearance.
The driver record number matched the details held by DVLA for the offender which included her second forename.
A recently disqualified driver visited the site and received 180 days in a youth offender institute.
The offender is described as wearing blue baggy jeans, a black hooded top and a hat with a peak.
The offender was duly taken care of by a US air marshal.
And in spreading the pestilence of posh tedium, opera has been the worst offender.
If this court found the presentment true the offender was deemed guilty.
Johnnie Moozie In one instance a woman was the unfortunate offender with whom he had to deal, and she proved rather refractory.
Youth offender teams will deal with referrals either post conviction, or following a police reprimand, or final warning.
X looks at the offender, who visibly shrinks in size.
The armorial offender in Scotland is accordingly viewed with the same stern and unromantic outlook which meets any other culprit caught evading national taxation.
Prins, the chief of the prison department, who has protested that to hope the vicious, hardened offender, after a long detention, "surrounded with every attention, soaked with good counsel, will leave his cell regenerated," is a Utopian dream.
Start moaning while casting reproachful looks at the offender.
The offender then left on foot carrying the money in a see-through plastic bag.
First, try discussing the matter with the offender directly in order to settle the matter informally.
One reported incident involved the officer threatening a sex offender inmate with prisoner violence should they find images of children in his cell.
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Well-water is a frequent offender of being hard.
One particularly lethal offender is Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), a disease that is brought on by a mutation of a feline enteric coronavirus.
State penalties can vary drastically depending on the seriousness of the crime, the cost to the victims and whether the thief is a first-time offender.
While Griffin is an equal opportunity offender in her stand-up routines, she has no qualms about ripping on the rich and famous.
The kitchen is the worst offender in temperature fluctuation in the whole house!
The worst offender is Amaretto, , an Italian liqueur often used in mixed drinks, which packs 266 calories in a small 2.5 ounce serving.