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  • noun Plural form of outgiving.

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Examples

  • The notes, as well as the poem, are crude productions, the outgivings of a boy; but that boy was Shelley.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • It is this: From the proceedings of the Canada Confederates, and their Northern allies, and the outgivings of the Richmond press, I conclude that their last suggestion is this: two or more confederacies, Northern, Southern,

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • The editorial outgivings of the British press on America's entrance form a literature all their own.

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

  • To gain a true sense of MacDowell's place in American music it is necessary to remember that twenty-five years ago, when he sent from Germany, as the fruit of his apprenticeship there, the earliest outgivings of his talent, our native musical art was still little more than a pallid reproduction of European models.

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

  • Germany, as the fruit of his apprenticeship there, the earliest outgivings of his talent, our native musical art was still little more than a pallid reproduction of European models.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • While my outgivings have always been sincere, I feel only too often their inadequacy to express my ideals; thus what you speak of as accomplishment I fear is often but attempt.

    Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

  • These and similar outgivings attracted the attention of a large element of the Republican party, and he was nominated for the Presidency, against General Grant, in 1872.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Certainly that one could not be far from the powerful wireless station secretly maintained on the roof of this weird jumble of architectural periods, its aërials cunningly hidden in the crowning atrocity of its minaret: a station reputedly so powerful that it could receive Berlin's nightly outgivings of news and orders, and, in emergency, transmit them to other secret stations in Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela.

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • A large part of the epigrams, however, were of the 'tame' variety, that is, stingless outgivings of a jocund humor, or grave pronunciamentos upon religion, philosophy, art and so forth.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • The other gave no such assurance, and was, in fact, expected (in accordance with frequent semi-official outgivings from Madrid) to commission privateers at an early day; but the disasters to its navy and the collapse of its finances left it without a safe opportunity.

    Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses Whitelaw Reid 1874

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