Soliciting vs Offertory - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between soliciting and offertory

is that soliciting is the act of one who solicits while offertory is an anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion.

As a verb soliciting

is present participle of lang=en.

soliciting

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

The act of one who solicits.

* 1848 , A house and its three tenants'' (in ''The Dublin University Magazine , volume 32, page 162)

His wife added no timid solicitings to the advice of his well-wishers; for she saw he considered it his duty to remain, and be a sort of rallying point to the humble supporters of quiet and good order

Anagrams

offertory

English

(wikipedia offertory)

Noun

(offertories)

(Christianity) An anthem formerly sung as part of the Roman Catholic Mass or during the corresponding part of the Anglican Communion.

* c.1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Canterbury Tales :

But alderbest he sang an offertory : / For well he wiste, when that song was sung, / He muste preach […].

* 1922 , (Sinclair Lewis), Babbitt :

There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory .

(Christianity) The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected.

* 1914 , (Stephen Leacock), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich :

Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the offertory , as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it.

* 1922 , (Upton Sinclair), They Call Me Carpenter :

I sat through the sermon, and the offertory , and the recessional.

* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 30:

Even the coins in the offertory were accredited with magical value; there were numerous popular superstitions about the magical value of communion silver as a cure for illness or a lucky charm against danger.