Offend vs Sneap - What's the difference?
offend | sneap |
(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 ),
(dialectal) To check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.
(dialectal) To nip; bite; pinch; blast; blight.
(dialectal) To thwart; offend.
(colloquial) To put someone's nose out of joint; offend.
(obsolete) A reprimand; a rebuke.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between offend and sneap
is that offend is (transitive) to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult while sneap is (dialectal) to check; reprove abruptly; reprimand; rebuke; chide.As a noun sneap is
(obsolete) a reprimand; a rebuke.offend
English
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
* *sneap
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete), (l) (dialectal),Verb
(en verb)- (Bishop Hall)
- (Shakespeare) - King Ferdinand of Navarre; Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost, That bites the first born infants of the spring. - Line 100 from Love's Labour's Lost
- She was sneaped when she wasn't invited to his party.
Noun
(en noun)- My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.