1658 tr. E. Coke Reports ii. 132 They had the Kings license to make the regift to the son and heir to make the estate according to the condition.

1886 A. E. Barr Bow Orange Ribbon xi. 297 She was prepared to ask, and to wait, for pardon and for a re-gift of that precious love.

1912 N.Y. Suppl. 133 21 The Fifty-Sixth street house was a gift to the plaintiff... The fact that her husband took the proceeds and deposited them temporarily in his own bank..did not amount to a re-gift from the plaintiff to her husband.

2009 W. W. Dixon Film Noir & Cinema of Paranoia ii. 54 Nancy's collapse at the altar, brought on by Mrs Willis's ‘re-gift’ of the locket Nancy briefly had as a child.

1910 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 40 183 These presents and regifts have gone back through the families for generations.

1949 J. Gunther Death be not Proud 250 I greeted him each morning as though he were newly born to me, a regift of God.

1998 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 19 Dec. 19 Clearly if it's a regift, a gift that's been passed on, then in a sense it is contaminated by the other relationship that the gift was given within.

2006 Washington Post 17 Dec. (Home ed.) f1/4 I remember one regift I received that I didn't appreciate.

1837 E. Thompson Rector of Auburn II. 30 Not even repentance can repair the breach in modesty made by the remorseless libertine, or re-gift the frail one with that inestimable jewel with which the Almighty has adorned the female sex.

1871 J. O. Crowe Amra Cholum Chilli Introd. p. vi When he had finished this, we was regifted with the immediately-lost light of his eyes.

1899 S. Crane in Strand Mag. Dec. 725/2 A correspondent was suddenly re-gifted with the power of prolonged speech.

1848 S. Prentis tr. G. A. de Chaulieu Fontenay in Specimens Transl. from French 13 The living sky, the living ground,—The world, regifted by its God!

1944 New Law Rep. (Supreme Court Ceylon) 45 161 Two of the donees died without issue and the donor cancelled the gift he had made and regifted the property to the two surviving donees on the first deed.

1995 A. Berg & J. Schaffer Seinfeld Ser. 6. Episode 11. (transcript of TV programme) 19 Jan. in www.seinfeldscripts.com (O.E.D. Archive) George: Well, didn't he regift the label maker? Jerry: Possibly. George: Well, if he can regift, why can't you degift?

1995 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 20 Dec. b2 Ms. Davis generally regifts items she just didn't have any use for.

2009 Los Angeles Times 19 Jan. c2 Don't regift homemade or one-of-a-kind items... Only new gifts in good condition should be regifted.

1995 A. Berg & J. Schaffer Seinfeld Ser. 6. Episode 11. (transcript of TV programme) 19 Jan. in www.seinfeldscripts.com (O.E.D. Archive) I think this is the same one I gave him. He recycled this gift. He's a regifter!

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Dec. d6/3 Receiving a re-gifted item, too, can feel more insulting when the re-gifter is part of the family.

1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. II. xix. 239 There was little time for the domain to go through its changes—a reversion to the crown, and a regifting.

1995 Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) 3 Dec. 1 d/2 Regifting is a brilliant concept, really. Everyone needs to reroute a few ugly, useless gifts this time of year.

2009 Fast Company Feb. 54/1 Applying to business school. Eating comfort foods... Regifting. These are some of the more well-known trends during economic recessions.