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In some senses, gaingiving is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
gaingiving
noun 2
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4ADJ.
kind, over
VERB + GAINGIVING
temper, trends
PREP.
toward
ADV.
perhaps
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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It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.
Wiktionary02
"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 trut
Wiktionary03
His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!
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