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Webster 1913 Edition

Giving

Giv′ing

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Noun.
1.
The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2.
A gift; a benefaction.
[R.]
Pope.
3.
The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
“Upon the first giving of the weather.”
Addison.
Giving in
,
a falling inwards; a collapse.
–
Giving out
,
anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.
His
givings out
were of an infinite distance
From his true meant design.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Giving

GIV'ING

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ppr.
Bestowing; conferring; imparting; granting; delivering.

GIV'ING

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Noun.
The act of conferring.
1.
An alleging of what is not real.

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