The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
A gift; a benefaction. [R.] Pope.
The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.
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