GIVING

Definitions

1. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2. 2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] Pope.
3. 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. Shak.