Offend vs Prejudice - What's the difference?
offend | prejudice |
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
(transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
(transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,
* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
* (rfdate) (Macaulay)
(countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
(obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
* , II.ix:
(obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc.
To cause prejudice.
As a verb offend
is (transitive) to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.As a noun prejudice is
a harm, a damage.offend
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Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}
- "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
- "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
Quotations
* (English Citations of "offend")Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* offendedly * offendedness * offender * reoffendExternal links
* *prejudice
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.
- I am free of all prejudices . I hate everyone equally.
- the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize : / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit
- (Locke)
- England and France might, through their amity, / Breed him some prejudice .