"What is this? An offering?" "That's right. Put it in this offertory box ... and pull this rope."
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Offertory
//ˈɑfəɹˌtɔɹi//
Synonyms for "offertory" (100 found)
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11 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дарение noun (money offered or donated during a church service)
Dutch
3 entries- collecte noun (money offered or donated during a church service)
- collecte noun (the part of a church service when offerings are collected)
- offertorium noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
Finnish
1 entries- kolehti noun (money offered or donated during a church service)
German
3 entries- Gabenbereitung noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
- Kollekte noun (money offered or donated during a church service)
- Offertorium noun (music sung or played during the offertory of a church service)
Italian
2 entries- offertorio noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
- offertorio noun (music sung or played during the offertory of a church service)
Māori
2 entries- ohaoha noun (money offered or donated during a church service)
- ohaoha noun (the part of a church service when offerings are collected)
Polish
3 entries- ofertorium noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
- offertorium noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
- ofiarowanie noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
Portuguese
1 entries- ofertório noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
Spanish
1 entries- ofertorio noun (the offering of sacremental bread and wine to God during a church service)
Sample sentences
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There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A., who also sang the offertory.
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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.
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I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional.
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