offertory

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Late Latin offertorium, from the participle stem of offere (“to offer”).

There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory. — Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
It was one summer evening, up at the vicarage, whilst he was checking the offertory account, that he first set eyes upon her. — Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship, Unknown
Raymie sang “Fly as a Bird,” “Thou Art My Dove,” and “When the Little Swallow Leaves Its Tiny Nest,” all in a reasonably bad offertory tenor. — Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

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