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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
proffer .
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Examples
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Ah, said the duke, art thou that proud knight that profferest to fight with my knights; therefore make thee ready, for I will have ado with you.
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That other answered and said he was of Tuscany, and demanded of Sir Gawaine, What, profferest thou, proud knight, thee so boldly? here gettest thou no prey, thou mayest prove what thou wilt, for thou shalt be my prisoner or thou depart.
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Ah, said the duke, art thou that proud knight that profferest to fight with my knights; therefore make thee ready, for I will have ado with you.
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That other answered and said he was of Tuscany, and demanded of Sir Gawaine, What, profferest thou, proud knight, thee so boldly? here gettest thou no prey, thou mayest prove what thou wilt, for thou shalt be my prisoner or thou depart.
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Verily, this brotherhood [thou profferest] may not be, neither were it seemly. '
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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Wherefore, my father, I will while the time till the poulardes be roasted, and the fish broiled or stewed, by the ablutions thou profferest me.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Wherefore, my father, I will while the time till the poulardes be roasted, and the fish broiled or stewed, by the ablutions thou profferest me.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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This that thou profferest me I have still desired and had I thought it should be vouchsafed me, I had long since sought it; and so much the dearer will it now be to me, as my hope thereof was less.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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Thou hast deprived me of all heart to accept of thee the service thou profferest me. '
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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281: The oath thou profferest, sire, I take and swear.
Oedipus the King Sophocles 1894
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