1556 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) III. 120 Within xx dais nixt efter the owtgiffinge of the decrete.

1618 Acts Parl. Scotl. IV. 587/2 The keiping and out-giuing of the weghts of old to the burrowes..was committed to the burgh of Lanerk.

a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) ii. 25 All the disbursements and outgivings to traders.

1733 C. B. Gunn Linton Church (1912) 130 The articles of his outgivings..did fully clear and extinguish said charge.

1801 Edinb. Weekly Jrnl. 14 Jan. 14 The Incorporation of Tailors in Paisley..have distributed..71 l. Sterling above their ordinary outgivings to their own poor.

1865 Morning Star 20 Jan. The outgivings of some irresponsible editor.

1897 Educ. Rev. 13 70 To regard that as the last outgiving of political philosophy.

1915 Nation (N.Y.) 17 June 671/1 After his own outgivings he [sc. Mr. Bryan] had the effrontery to blame the press for making people think the note would be warlike.

1938 Public Opinion Q. 2 42 The use of an ‘official spokesman’..produced comments to the effect that the Secretary should take responsibility for the department's outgivings.

1961 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 1 35 In view of the generally limp..character of their outgivings on such matters, it is doubtful whether any very precise..ideas..can with accuracy be ascribed to them.

1896 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 513/2 We find plentiful examples of the braw men..; outgiving in speech in a way that may deceive the unwary into the notion that they are easily seen through.

1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 309 I seem to find running through everything a sense of energy, of vigor, of a vigor unified, outgoing and outgiving.

1942 J. Lees-Milne Ancestral Voices (1975) 31 K. as outgiving as ever.

1972 Times 3 July 16/7 There can rarely have been such an outgiving man who was less of an extrovert.

1968 Listener 10 Oct. 458/2 She had lost a great deal, I think, of her out-givingness in that way and the novels perhaps reflect this.