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RELIGIOUS OFFERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious offering mean? 

RELIGIOUS OFFERING (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS OFFERING has 1 sense:

1. the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharistplay

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS OFFERING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIGIOUS OFFERING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Oblation; religious offering

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)


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