Meaning of GIVING
| Pronunciation: | | g'iving
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- [n] disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
- [n] the act of giving
- [n] the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"
- [adj] given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
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| | Synonyms: | | big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, gift, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| | See Also: | | accordance, accordance of rights, bestowal, bestowment, charity, conferment, conferral, contribution, conveyance, disposal, disposition, donation, endowment, impartation, imparting, oblation, offering, share-out, sharing | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Giv"ing\, n.
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. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | abalienation, adaptable, administration, agape, alienation, altruism, amortization, amortizement, announcement, application, applying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bendable, bending, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, Benthamism, bequeathal, bestowal, bighearted, bigheartedness, BOMFOG, bounteous, bountiful, brotherly love, caritas, cession, charitableness, charity, Christian charity, Christian love, compliant, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disclosure, disposal, disposition, do-goodism, dosage, dosing, ductile, elastic, enfeoffment, enforcing, exchange, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, flower power, forcing, forcing on, formable, formative, free, freehanded, freehearted, generosity, generous, goodwill, grace, gracious, greathearted, greatheartedness, handsome, hospitable, humanitarianism, impartation, imparting, impartment, impressible, impressionable, large, largehearted, largeheartedness, lavish, lease and release, liberal, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, love, love of mankind, magnanimous, malleable, meting out, moldable, munificent, notification, open, openhanded, openhearted, philanthropism, philanthropy, plastic, pliable, pliant, prescribing, princely, profuse, publication, receptive, responsive, sale, sensitive, sequacious, settlement, settling, shapable, sharing, springy, stintless, submissive, supple, surrender, susceptible, telling, tractable, tractile, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, utilitarianism, vesting, welfarism, well-disposedness, whippy, willowy, yielding |
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