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proffering

[prof-er]

Origin

verb (used with object)

to put before a person for acceptance; offer.

noun

the act of proffering.

an offer or proposal.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English profren < Anglo-French profrer, variant of Old French poroffrir, equivalent to por- pro-¹ + offrir to offer

Related forms

prof·fer·er, noun

un·prof·fered, adjective

Synonyms
1. volunteer, propose, suggest. See offer.

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proffer

late 13c., from Anglo-Fr. profrier (mid-13c.), O.Fr. poroffrir (c.1080), from por- "forth" (from L. pro-) + offrir "to offer," from L. offerre (see offer).

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"But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, though still green and crude,—the hard, round, glossy fruit, which, if not ripe, still was not poison, but New English too, brought hither, its ancestors, by ours once. These gentler trees imparted a half-civilized and twilight aspect to the otherwise barbarian land."

-Henry David Thoreau

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