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First offender   /fərst əfˈɛndər/   Listen
First offender

noun
1.
Someone convicted for the first time.





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"First offender" Quotes from Famous Books



... who may be appeased by tears and by weeping as He permits Himself to be softened by contrition, entreaties, etc., and resumes His natural benignity by forgetting things past [etc.].... Alas, what kindness did He use toward Adam, His first offender, upon whom through his son Seth He poured the oil of pity in five thousand future years, and then to Cain the first born of mother He postponed vengeance for his crime for ten generations etc. What did he do in Abraham's time, when He sent ...
— Charles the Bold - Last Duke Of Burgundy, 1433-1477 • Ruth Putnam
... my inclination nor sacred calling will allow me to countenance a broil! I have been the first offender—to attempt to leave the room now would but provoke an attack; leave this affair ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 18, 1841 • Various


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