Proffer vs Purvey - What's the difference?
proffer | purvey |
An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
Essay; attempt.
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
Indefinite plural of .
(obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
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*:A sayd the kynge / syn ye knowe of your aduenture puruey for hit / and put awey by your craftes that mysauenture / Nay said Merlyn it wylle not be / soo he departed from the kynge
To furnish or provide.
*Spenser
*:Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey / Yourself of sword before that bloody day.
*2005 , Lesley Brown, trans. (Plato), Sophist , :
*:Those who sell their own products are distinguished from purveyors, who purvey what others produce.
To procure; to get.
*Sir Walter Scott
*:I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
As a noun proffer
is an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.As a verb proffer
is to offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.As a proper noun purvey is
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* proffre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Milton)