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Proffer   /prˈɑfər/   Listen
verb
Proffer  v. t.  (past & past part. proffered; pres. part. proffering)  
1.
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship. "I reck not what wrong that thou me profre."
2.
To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake. (R.)


noun
Proffer  n.  
1.
An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship. "He made a proffer to lay down his commission."
2.
Essay; attempt. (R.)





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... answers that interest is not usury, to which the peasant replies that interest (Guelt) is only a "subtle name." The burgher then quotes Scripture, as commanding men to help one another. The peasant readily answers that in doing this they have no right to get advantage from the assistance they proffer. "Thou art a good fellow!" says the townsman. "If I take no money for the money that I lend, how shall I then increase my hoard?" The peasant then reproaches him that he sees well that his object in life is to wax fat on the substance of others; "But I tell thee, ...
— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax
... seemed to strangle in his cradle the serpents of civil discord. Every lip hastened to proffer him its homage; every heart united, or seemed at least to unite, in the general burst of ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... a command at sea, he offered himself to Commodore Chauncey, who had recently been placed at the head of the lake service. His character was understood by this officer, and the proffer accepted. The necessary communications were made to the Government, and in the middle of February, in 1813, he was ordered to join Chauncey at Sackett's Harbor, with the picked men of his Newport flotilla. He ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 • Various
... her, through the starlight, walking steadily along the track. I rode up to her, and offered her one of the cart-horses: I would not have trusted my Zoe with her any more than with an American lion that lives upon horses. She declined the proffer with quiet scorn. I offered her one or both men to see her home, but the way in which she refused their service, made them glad they had not to go with her. We had no choice, therefore turned and left her to get home ...
— The Flight of the Shadow • George MacDonald
... quiet, courteous people, would have been delightful if they had not been so cultivated. Culture lay about in lumps; it had never soaked in. The result was that I felt I could never get to know any of these agreeable people at all. One tried to talk, and one was met with a proffer of a lump of culture. Then, as I say, it was all in pieces; it was not part of a plan or an attitude of mind; it had all been laboriously collected, and it was just as it had been discovered; it did not seem to have undergone ...
— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson


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