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offendor

offendor is the obsolete form of offender.

Meaning of offender

Noun

offender (plural offenders)

  1. One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
    • Almost all down trains are late, however; the empty wagon trains are probably the worst offenders and one or two hours' late running by them is not unusual.1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169
  2. A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

Forms of offendor

pluraloffendors

Origin of offendor

From offend + -or.

Questions about offendor

What is offendor the obsolete form of?
Offendor is the obsolete form of offender.

Words near offendor in the dictionary

  1. offenders
  2. offendest
  3. offendeth
  4. offending
  5. offendings
  6. offendor
  7. offendors
  8. offendotron
  9. offendotrons
  10. offendour
  11. offendours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offendor (page history and authors); offender (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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