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offendour

offendour 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 offendour

pluraloffendours

Questions about offendour

What is offendour the obsolete form of?
Offendour is the obsolete form of offender.

Words near offendour in the dictionary

  1. offendings
  2. offendor
  3. offendors
  4. offendotron
  5. offendotrons
  6. offendour
  7. offendours
  8. offendress
  9. offendresses
  10. offends
  11. offense

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offendour (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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