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burnt offerings

burnt offerings is the plural of burnt offering.

Meaning of burnt offering

Noun

burnt offering (plural burnt offerings)

  1. A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
    • […] Job ſent for them, and clenſed them agayne, ſtode vp early, and offred for eueryone a brẽtofferinge [brentofferinge].1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Job j:[5], folio i...
  2. (broadly) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
  3. (humorous) Overcooked food that is nevertheless served.
    • A cooler oven would give heavy, doughy loaves while a hotter oven would provide the family with the inevitable burnt offerings.1991, Sara Minwel Tibbott, Baking in Wales, page 21

Questions about burnt offerings

What is burnt offerings the plural of?
Burnt offerings is the plural of burnt offering.

Words near burnt offerings in the dictionary

  1. burnt knights
  2. burnt lime
  3. Burnt Oak
  4. burnt off
  5. burnt offering
  6. burnt offerings
  7. burnt one down
  8. burnt one's boats
  9. burnt one's bridges
  10. burnt one's fingers
  11. burnt one's toast

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