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offerer|ˈɒfərə(r)|
[f. offer v. + -er1.]
1. One who offers a sacrifice, or prayer, etc.; one who brings an offering.
1382Wyclif Exod. xxix. 33 That it be a pesible sacrifice, and that the hondes of the offrers ben halowid. 1526Tindale Heb. x. 2 The offerers once pourged shulde have hadde no moare consciences of sinnes. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 375 Prayers and Praises which the offerers vnderstand not. a1716South Serm. (1718) II. 99 A fire, that will be sure to destroy the offering, though mercy should spare the offerer. 1818Lamb Poems, In a leaf of ‘Lives of Saints’, The lone mite, the cup of water cold That in their way approved the offerer's zeal.
2. a. In other senses of offer v., q.v.: One who presents something for acceptance; one who makes an offer or proposal; one who makes an attempt at something; a bidder, etc.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 161 One may more then halfe gesse, what they will receiue, when none seeth but the offerer. 1612Two Noble K. v. vi, Nay, let's be offerers all. 1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 169 The sufferers of violence would have been offerers of it, if empowered with might equal to their malice. 1675Wycherley Country Wife i. i. (1735) 14 He's one of those nauseous offerers at wit. 1826Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pop. Fallacies xi, There are favours..which confer as much grace upon the acceptor as the offerer. 1868Perthsh. Jrnl. 18 June, The present Tenant (who is not to be an Offerer) will give directions for showing the boundaries.
b. spec. (with spelling offeror). One who offers something for sale, esp. shares.
1930A. Palmer Company Secretarial Pract. vi. 46 Any document by which the offer for sale is made shall..be deemed to be a prospectus issued by the company, but without prejudice to the liability of the offerors in respect of the offer. 1955Times 18 May 3/8 There was no binding contract until notice of the acceptance was received by the offeror. 1972Mod. Law Rev. XXXV. 74 The offer was to remain open until May 14, 1970, with the usual right being reserved to the offeror to extend the time during which the offeree shareholders could tender their acceptances. |