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.
| 1530 Tindale 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. 1539 Bible (Great) 2 Chron. xxxiii. 16 He..sacrificed theron peace offerynges, & thank offerynges. 1839 Thirlwall Greece VI. xlix. 171 He dedicated the waggon in the citadel, as a thank-offering to the king of the gods. 1888 Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. i. 45 He sent at once a thank-offering for distribution among the poor. 1921 G. O'Donovan Vocations xi. 171 The united prayers of the nuns were a thanks-offering to God for her. 1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil's Aeneid vi. 118 A thanks-offering to Phoebus. 1978 Washington 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. |