Proffer

/ˈpɹɒfə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender..

Definitions by Sense

1. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
2. (obsolete) An attempt, an essay.
3. (transitive, reflexive) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To attempt or essay of one's own accord; to undertake or propose to undertake.

Example Sentences

[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.

Her lips, man, her lips! and that's a proffer I would not make to every one who crosses my threshold. But, by good St Valentine, (whose holiday will dawn to-morrow,) I am so glad to see thee in the bonny city of Perth again, that it would be hard to tell the thing I could refuse thee.

[H]ow, if you tell him this, will you make him understand that I say so as an act of justice, and not in the least as a proffer of affection?

"Oh no," she refused demurely at their proffer of coffee. "I can't do that now. I-I — I don't know if Jo's told you our good news! Perhaps a glass of milk."

He said a reversionary proffer – saying the property would revert to its prior zoning if certain benchmarks were not met by the developers – was brought up in a conceptual discussion in a pre-application meeting in May 2014 with the developers, but did not progress beyond that.

[A]fter ſome reſiſtance with ſhotte and arrowes, and profer of onſet made by their horſemen, they were put to flight, [...]

It is a Thing ſtrange in Nature, when it is attentiuely conſidered, How Children and ſome Birds, learne to imitate Speech. [...] It is true, that it is done with time, and by little and little, and with many Eſſayes and Proffers: But all this diſchargeth not the VVonder.

to proffer friendship, a gift, or services

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• proffers
• profre
• proffre
• proffering
• proffered

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