Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A misgiving; a giving against or away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A misgiving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
misgiving . - noun A giving against or away.
- noun An internal feeling or
prognostic of evil.
Etymologies
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From gain- + giving.
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Examples
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Beatrice smiled at him very kindly in the moonlight, for the youth in his voice appealed very earnestly to the youth in her heart, and it may be to a gaingiving that had also its lodging in her body and warned her of youth's briefness.
The God of Love 1898
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