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RELIGIOUS OFFERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist
Synonyms:
Oblation; religious offering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("religious offering" is a kind of...):
religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious offering"):
Offertory (the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God)