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Great Expectations vocabulary
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proffer
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Definition:to offer
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But immediately, while rapidly greeting her acquaintances, and shaking the hands proffered to her,
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Johnny kissed her on her proffered cheek.
Mario Puzo. The Godfather, p.182 (1969)
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As he poured to the proffered glasses,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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for anything I knew, the proffered information might have some important bearing on the flight itself.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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Lucilla seeing his pretence, thought to take advantage of his large proffer, unto whom she said, “Gentleman, in my opinion, women are to be won with every wind, in whose sex there is neither force to withstand the assaults of love, neither constancy to remain faithful.
John Lyly. The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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