Giv·ing n.
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.]
3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. “Upon the first giving of the weather.”
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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