gaingiving

noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

A misgiving; an internal feeling or prognostication of evil.

It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.

"I tell thee what it is, Dick," he growled, "I have a gaingiving come over me, as I think on yonder barn ; it well nigh makes me turn back, now we are within a stone's throw of it, and that's the truth.

2

A giving against or away.

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