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ˈthank-ˌoffering
Also thanks-offering.
[f. thank n. + offering vbl. n.]
In the Levitical law, An offering presented as an expression of gratitude to God; hence in ordinary use, An offering or gift made by way of thanks or acknowledgement.
1530Tindale Lev. vii. 12 Yf he offer to geue thanckes, he shall brynge vnto his thanckofferynge [1560 (Genev.) for his thankes offring] swete cakes myngled with oyle. 1539Bible (Great) 2 Chron. xxxiii. 16 He..sacrificed theron peace offerynges, & thank offerynges. 1839Thirlwall Greece VI. xlix. 171 He dedicated the waggon in the citadel, as a thank-offering to the king of the gods. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. i. 45 He sent at once a thank-offering for distribution among the poor. 1921G. O'Donovan Vocations xi. 171 The united prayers of the nuns were a thanks-offering to God for her. 1952C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid vi. 118 A thanks-offering to Phoebus. 1978Washington Post 7 Mar. a13/2 Oberammergau..has performed the Passion play every 10 years for centuries as a thanks offering for the end of the plague. |