Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of proffer.

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  • verb To utter; to pronounce
  • verb To deliver

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old French proferer, from Latin proferre ("to bring forth, produce, utter").

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Examples

  • I dinn't respond to your plea, but was going to profer my dog's name JED.

    My Dog's Name Is... 2008

  • Way to profer the right's discredited 3 months ago meme.

    Obama Campaign Circulating Negative (And Ultimately False) Story About Bill Clinton 2009

  • So, in response to Jonathan's comment above, I would profer that the reason you see those stats in the ditch has less to do with the "PC Market" and more to do with the manner in which titles distributed through digital channels only are marketed i.e. very little if at all.

    Single-A games Steve gaynor 2009

  • An earlier poster asked why the skeptics did not profer their arguments.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge 2009

  • The data which you profer, while interesting no doubt in many respect, is irrelevant to the Bradley effect hypothesis.

    Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw" 2009

  • Address; for if I had told my Father or Mother, I shou'd but have embarrass'd them in a difficult Business, for it ill befitted them to profer their Daughter in Marriage, and disagreeable, to leave me to struggle with my own Passion, and his Pretences, without taking any

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Address; for if I had told my Father or Mother, I shou'd but have embarrass'd them in a difficult Business, for it ill befitted them to profer their Daughter in Marriage, and disagreeable, to leave me to struggle with my own Passion, and his Pretences, without taking any

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Whenever I hear one profer the "I'm not ready" argument as supporting abortion I am tempted to ask if the "I'm not ready" argument should be equally acceptable to support a young man not supporting the result of a choice not to abort.

    "But I'm still an embryo/With a long, long way to go." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Empire; therefore, if you have any Sense of Generosity, or of the Honour I profer you, conform your Will to a speedy Consent to my just Desires, I might say, Commands: And though the Wretch Exilius has deserv'd

    Exilius 2008

  • "We are going to look into it and find out exactly how that money was expended and at the same time profer a solution," said Chineye Ike while expressing his support for the motion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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