Offender Definition

Offender Sentence Examples

• The chief offender was not brought to justice until a second punitive expedition in 1899 completed the pacification of the country.

• The offender is only treated as a heathen and publican when the purity and safety of the church demand it.

• The interruption of preachers when celebrating divine service rendered the offender liable to three months' imprisonment under a statute of the first year of Mary, but Friends generally waited to speak till the service was over.'

• Is he a registered sex offender?

• Profane cursing and swearing is made punishable by the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which directs the offender to be brought before a justice of the peace, and fined five shillings, two shillings or one shilling, according as he is a gentleman, below the rank of gentleman, or a common labourer, soldier, &c.