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▪ I. giving, vbl. n.|ˈgɪvɪŋ|
[f. give v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. give.
1. a. In transitive senses. Occas. pl.
13..K. Alis. 839 Alisaundre god los Of that gevying him aros. c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 230 Rest nis ther noon in his yeving. c1449Pecock Repr. 400 Thes iiij maners of ȝeuyngis. 1573J. Sandford Hours Recreat. (1576) 211 Promissing is the vigile of giving. 1581T. Rogers St. Aug. Praiers xvii. (1597) 70 For euerie good giuing and euerie perfect gifte is from aboue. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 21 *The giving of it Glisterwise in a fume to a patient. 1732Pope Mor. Ess. iii. 348 Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. 1851Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xi. 137 When the spirit of giving was substituted for the spirit of mere rivalry. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 492 We go..to hold givings and takings with giants.
b. Gerundially with † a (on) or with omission of the prep.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. lxiv. 387 Euen while Gods lawe was a giuing to them..they prouoked Gods Vengeaunce. 1707S. Sewall Diary 2 July (1879) II. 190, I could not hear one word while the Degrees were giving.
2. In intransitive senses.
1710Addison Tatler No. 254 ⁋10 Upon the first Giving of the Weather. 1818Sporting Mag. II. 189 The men closed after three distinct rallies, in which there was a considerable giving. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Giving, the surging of a seizing; new rope stretching to the strain.
3. With adverbs, as giving back, giving in, giving over, giving out, giving up. Also giving way (see give v. B. 52).
1530Palsgr. 225/1 Gevyng over a thyng, resignation. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xix. 23 To treat of some good accord touching the giving over of the castle. 1604Shakes. Oth. iv. i. 131 This is the Monkeys owne giuing out. 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 18 To make me resolue the giuing ouer that place. 1611Cotgr., Pas d'escrevisse, a..giuing backe. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 43 Their Platform..by the giving way of the Earth, became ruinous. 1804Morning Post in Spirit. Publ. Jrnls. (1805) VIII. 244 The ambiguous givings out, and the unambiguous promptings that are pent within. 1831T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 168 [He] seemed to think it very much of a giving in on the part of his brother agitators. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 366 A giving up that had been most unhandsomely accepted by his landlord. 1884Law Times Rep. LI. 229/2 The immediate cause of the subsidence was the giving way of a stratum of soft mud. 1894Daily News 9 Mar. 3/7 The cruiser..having broken down through the giving out of her cylinders.
†4. concr. That which is given; a gift. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxviii. 2 Fro the king he schal take ȝyuyng [Vulg. donationem]. 1664Pepys Diary (1879) III. 46 My aunt Wight did send my Wife a new scarfe, laced, as a token for her many givings to her. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 730 Scepter and Power, thy giving, I assume, And gladlier shall resign.
5. attrib., as giving-set, an apparatus for giving blood transfusions or the like.
1955D. F. E. Nash Princ. Surgical Nursing ii. ix. 138 All giving-sets must of course be supplied in a sterile container. 1961Lancet 2 Sept. 537/1 The recent appearance of new sterile-packed, disposable giving-sets. Ibid. 16 Sept. 662/1 Any general practitioner undertaking domiciliary midwifery should..have at hand..a transfusion giving set.
▪ II. giving, ppl. a.|ˈgɪvɪŋ|
[f. give v. + -ing2.]
That gives, in senses of the vb.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. li. 23 To the ȝyuende to me wisdam I shal ȝyue glorie. 1611Cotgr., Moite,..giuing as stones in rainie weather. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxviii. 482 O get a heart mortified to all these things, and you will bless a taking as well as a giving God. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 200 From his soft, giving palm. |