Offense or Offence (see -ce/-se) may refer to:
- Offence (law), a violation of the penal law
- Offense (sports), the action of engaging an opposing team with the objective of scoring
- Offense (policy debate), arguments that make a definite value judgment about an advocacy
- The Offence, a 1972 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet
- "Offense" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Famous quotes containing the word offense:
“Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows—nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry—and it controls the breast.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When offense occurred, Slaughter took the trail, and seldom returned with a live prisoner. Usually he reported that he had chased the suspect “clean out of the county”; these suspects never reappeared in Tombstone—or anywhere else.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven,
It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t,
A brother’s murder.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)