Offering

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: of=fer=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Offering, n. 

•  The act of an offerer; a proffering.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.  [1913 Webster]

  "They are polluted offerings more abhorred
  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."  [1913 Webster]
•  A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering.  [1913 Webster]

  "[None] to the offering before her should go."  [1913 Webster]

Burnt offering, Drink offering, etc. See under Burnt. etc.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Offering, n.
1 a contribution, esp. of money, to a Church.
2 a thing offered as a religious sacrifice or token of devotion.
3 anything, esp. money, contributed or offered.

THESAURUS

Offering

Christmas present, advance, alms, alms fee, approach, asking price, award, benefaction, beneficence, bid, birthday present, box, burnt offering, cadeau, charity, collection, contribution, dole, donation, donative, drink offering, ex voto offering, fairing, feeler, gift, handout, handsel, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide, invitation, libation, mactation, oblation, offer, offertory, overture, peace offering, piacular offering, pittance, preliminary approach, present, presentation, proffer, sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, self-immolation, self-sacrifice, submission, subscription, suttee, sutteeism, tentative approach, thank offering, tithe, tribute, votive offering, white elephant, whole offering

ROGET THESAURUS

Offering

Offer

N offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture, proposal, proposition, motion, invitation, candidature, offering, offering, offered, in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire, offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture, proposal, proposition, motion, invitation, candidature, offering, offering, offered, in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire.

Giving

N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.