Giv"ing (?), n.
1.
The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
2.
A gift; a benefaction.
[R.]
Pope.
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.
© Webster 1913.