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giving (root: give)
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]
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, yieldingROGET THESAURUS
giving
Giving
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