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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
proffer .
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Examples
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The real question is how the next part of the process shapes up, the part that might transform this magical kindness that might make everything happy and right, into genuine kindness, that is ‘a simple exchange’, something proffered from the place of shared humanity.
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The real question is how the next part of the process shapes up, the part that might transform this magical kindness that might make everything happy and right, into genuine kindness, that is ‘a simple exchange’, something proffered from the place of shared humanity.
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I think that the conclusion proffered is a very distorted reality.
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As an aside, that whole "death of SF" argument -- another reason often proffered is that we've run out of things to do with those tropes; we've exhausted them.
Strange Fiction 8 Hal Duncan 2006
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As it was, he cowered down in a paralysis of fear, already half proffering the submission that his kind had proffered from the first time a wolf came in to sit by man's fire and be made warm.
The Makers of Fire 1906
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The terms proffered on November 25th by an Afghan deputation were so humiliating that Macnaghten peremptorily rejected them; and the threat of immediate hostilities unless our people promptly surrendered their arms and withdrew was not carried out.
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869
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It represents the most stylish, irreverent and distinctive title proffered since Suda 51's
Latest from PALGN 2009
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It represents the most stylish, irreverent and distinctive title proffered since Suda 51's
Latest from PALGN 2009
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It represents the most stylish, irreverent and distinctive title proffered since Suda 51's
Latest from PALGN 2009
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It represents the most stylish, irreverent and distinctive title proffered since Suda 51's
Latest from PALGN 2009
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