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offensive (adj.)
"attacking" (1547), "insulting" (1576), both from M.Fr.
offensif
(fem.
offensive
), from M.L.
offensivus,
from L.
offensus,
pp. of
offendere
"offend" (see
offend
). The noun is 1720 from the adj.
