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gaingiving

noun

Etymology

From gain- + giving.

Definitions

  1. A misgiving

    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.
    • His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!

  2. A giving against or away.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA