Meaning of gaingiving | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A misgiving; an internal feeling or prognostication of evil.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A giving against or away.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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!”

““A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.””

“The hero of our play will be, not only a man who might have made a soldier, "had he been put on," and who has effectively been relieved of his vigil by the time we bid him farewell, but one also who, though he scorns to be troubled by "gaingiving", [...]”

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