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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