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unˈoffered, ppl. a.
(un-1 8, 8 c.)
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 103 Leuynge in hym nothynge vnoffred for vs, but in all partes he suffered payne for our synne. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xxiii, I know too well their cunning (who leave no mony unoffered that may buy mine honour). 1642Chas. I Declar. Intentions Brainford 7 Unfought with, and unoffered at,..to march away. 1658Whole Duty of Man iii. §18 Though the gift be already at the Altar, it must rather be left there unoffered, than [etc.]. 1736Websted Wks. (1787) 477 To the end they might do so, no methods were left untried, no motives unoffered. 1747P. Francis tr. Horace, Ep. i. xiii. 4 If he ask'd to read th' unoffer'd Lay. 1848Buckley Iliad 5 Neither on account of a vow unperformed, nor of a hecatomb unoffered. |