1619 J. Sempill App. 4 Was Abraham so idle in gifting? Jacob so superstitious in vowing?
1671 R. McWard 163 Our Lords most gracious gifting.
1796 T. Townshend 32 Where once thy gifting hand did weave Garlands of glory for the poet's head.
1875 W. D. Whitney xiv. 302 A gifting of man, at his birth, not with capacities alone.