offsend
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dismissal; the act of sending away.
Example Sentences
- "out of the service as quietly as I had entered some thirty years before; the kind of an offsend I then escaped was of the official, obligatory stamp, while this, tonight, has been prompted by no external circumstance"
- "The arterial supply of the iris comes from the circulus iridis major, encircling the peripheral border of the iris; these branches offsending numerous small branches toward the pupil, these branches, meanwhile sending off smaller branches into the substance of the iris."
- "Nevada, with a population of less than one hundred thousand, will offsent Pennsylvania with a population of nearly eight millions."
- "... so he offsends the fastidious reader with his blatant use of big words like 'spirit' and 'beauty'."
- "And this would offsend the incontrovertible principle laid down by the House of Lords in Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance v. Simpson, that a charitable trust must be exclusively used for charitable purposes"
Etymology
From off- + send.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: off