Offering
['ɒf(ə)rɪŋ] or ['ɔfərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offer
(n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.
(n.) That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
(n.) A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sacrifice, oblation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OFFER_and_OBLATION]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To bring or make an offering, foretells that you will be cringing and hypocritical unless you cultivate higher views of duty.
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Examples
- From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She stood by the table, not offering to sit down. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his wife. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- With a significant grin Malone produced his pistols, offering one to each of his brethren. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But he suffered Mr Casby to go out, without offering any further remark, and then took a peep at him over the little green window-blinds. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I declined offering an opinion, fearing to do harm. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have kept that in mind, and I have heard something that may relieve you on that score--may show you that no sin-offering is demanded from you there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I followed my aunt with a modest medicinal peace-offering, in the shape of a bottle of salts. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Many people write asking his opinion as to a certain invention, or offering him an interest in it if he will work it out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I envied no girl her lover, no bride her bridegroom, no wife her husband; I was content with this my voluntary, self-offering friend. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The note was written in the terms which one gentleman would use to another after offering some deep insult. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I listened to my father in silence, and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It may have been thrown into the sea as an offering to the British Admiralty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fact being, I presume, that Mr. Bounderby the Banker does _not_ reside in the edifice in which I have the honour of offering this explanation? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- These offerings of affection were of a most various and eccentric description. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If this were to be the ruling of Providence, he was cast out from the temple as one who had brought unclean offerings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The long train of offerings followed: all the pupils, sweeping past with the gliding step foreigners practise, left their tributes as they went by. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Even more natural than to provide a wife for a god is to give him a house to live in to which offerings can be brought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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