proffer
verb (used with object)
to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
profferer
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a word derived from
proffer.
Example Sentences
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The unfortunate profferer of that understanding is in for a draining and intense ride.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2015
He holds the present up to her As with a smile she nears And answers to the profferer, "'Twill last all my sewing years!"
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
Neither the profferer nor the refuser could have regarded it in the light of a bribe.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
A sudden thought flashed across her mind; might it not be possible that this tender guardian of her safety, this heroic profferer of service, was the noble Wallace?
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
"Don't any more of you try it on," he warned, as the thwarted profferer of the counterfeit sidled away, and there was, in his tone, a dominant ferocity.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
