• (RP) IPA: /əʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɒˈbleɪʃən/
• (America) IPA: /oʊˈbleɪʃən/, /ɑːˈbleɪʃən/

oblation (plural oblations)

1. The offering of worship, thanks etc. to a deity.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Leviticus 2:7 ↗:

     And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

   • 1786, William Beckford, Vathek; an Arabian Tale:

     whatever she judged proper for the oblation of the approaching night.

   • 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “From the Cabby’s Seat”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, OCLC 1399985 ↗, page 165 ↗:

     In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.

2. (by extension) A deed or gift offered charitably.

• French: oblation
• Italian: oblazione
• Spanish: oblación

1. The offering of bread and wine at the Eucharist