giving (root: give)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: giv=ing
• COUNT in NET: 129 in 137 verses (in OT : 99 in 106 verses) (in NT : 30 in 31 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

giving, n. 

•  The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.  [1913 Webster]
•  A gift; a benefaction.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

  "His givings out were of an infinite distance
  From his true meant design."  [1913 Webster]

Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.

THESAURUS

giving

BOMFOG, Benthamism, Christian charity, Christian love, abalienation, adaptable, administration, agape, alienation, altruism, amortization, amortizement, announcement, application, applying, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bendable, bending, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, bequeathal, bestowal, bighearted, bigheartedness, bounteous, bountiful, brotherly love, caritas, cession, charitableness, charity, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

giving

Giving

N giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare, giving, bestowal, bestowment, donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle, graft, grease, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor, giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary, tributary, gratis, donative, auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare.