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Bidding vs Proffering - What's the difference?

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Bidding is a synonym of proffering.


As verbs the difference between bidding and proffering

is that bidding is while proffering is .

As nouns the difference between bidding and proffering

is that bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command while proffering is the act by which something is proferred.

bidding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • * 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
    • Do their biddings , and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
  • The act of placing a bid.
  • * Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
    • Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.

    proffering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is proferred.
  • * 1920 , Anna Balmer Myers, Patchwork: A Story of the Plain People
    • Everywhere there were greetings and profferings of dinner invitations.