1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 103. Leuynge in hym nothynge vnoffred for vs, but in all partes he suffered payne for our synne.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. xxiii. I know too well their cunning (who leave no mony unoffered that may buy mine honour).
1642. Chas. I., Declar. Intentions Brainford, 7. Unfought with, and unoffered at,… to march away.
1658. Whole Duty of Man, iii. § 18. Though the gift be already at the Altar, it must rather be left there unoffered, than [etc.].
1736. L. Welsted, Scheme Provid. vii. (ed. 2), 77–8. To the end [they should deserve the one, and avoid the other] they might do so, no methods were left untried, no motives unoffered.
1747. P. Francis, trans. Horace, Ep., I. xiii. 4. If he ask’d to read th’ unoffer’d Lay.
1848. Buckley, Iliad, 5. Neither on account of a vow unperformed, nor of a hecatomb unoffered.
