GIVING

GIVING. → RULES FOR Mt 6:1-4; 1Co 16:2; 2Co 8:11,12,14; 9:6,7
* See ALMS
* See BENEFICENCE
* See LIBERALITY

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Giv″ing (?), n. 1. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope.
3. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. “Upon the first giving of the weather.” Addison.
Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. — Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. Shak.