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Webster 1913 Edition


Offender

Of-fend′er

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Noun.
One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders
.
1 Kings i. 21.

Webster 1828 Edition


Offender

OFFEND'ER

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Noun.
One that offends; one that violates any law, divine or human; a criminal; a trespasser; a transgressor; one that does an injury. The man who robs, steals, or commits an assault, is an offender.