How to pronounce“proffer”in English
Terrific. But folks, we have got us a very long way to go.
I here proffer my opinion that we the people are still being raped on a daily basis, but it's a much longer, much slower fucking.
The aggressors are-- I don't know, the lobbyists for big tobacco, and for guns and pharmaceuticals and agribusiness.
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Definitions of “proffer”
An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
“[T]heir ovvn eies vvilbe perhaps more curious iudges, out of heareſay they may have builded many conceites, vvhich I can not perchaunce vvil not performe, then vvil vndeſerued repentance be a greater ſhame and iniurie vnto me, then their vndeſerued proffer, is honour.”
An attempt, an essay.
“[A]fter ſome reſiſtance with ſhotte and arrowes, and profer of onſet made by their horſemen, they were put to flight, [...]”
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
“to proffer friendship, a gift, or services”
To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.
“[N]one among the choice and prime / Of thoſe Heav'n-warring Champions could be found / So hardie as to proffer or accept / Alone the dreadful voyage; [...]”
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