It is an offense against society, for the community has a right to be benefited by the lives of its members, and to receive a return for the protection and assistance it affords them.
Still less is the fear of punishment purely servile, when it leads a just man, who already detests sin as an offense against God, to detest it as involving punishment from God.
Law) Defn: An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained.
To offend against, to do an injury or wrong to; to commit an offense against.
That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; teh state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.
For, by the law of nature, the individual has no right to punish an offense against himself in order to prevent further offences of the same kind.
It was truly said--the theft of a slave is no offense against society.
For since sin is an offense against God, excluding us from eternal life, as is clear from what has been said above (Q.
The theologian considers sin chiefly as an offense against God; and the moral philosopher, as something contrary to reason.
A lie is not only an affront against the person to whom it is told, but it is an offense against humanity.
For, as sin is an offense against God, He pardons sin in the same way as he pardons an offense committed against Him.
Now it is evident that there is a special reason for praising the act of penance, because it aims at the destruction of past sin, considered as an offense against God, which does not apply to any other virtue.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offense against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
