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Definition of Gaingiving
1. n. A misgiving.
Definition of Gaingiving
1. Noun. A misgiving. ¹
2. Noun. A giving against or away. ¹
3. Noun. An internal feeling or prognostic of evil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gaingiving
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaingiving
Literary usage of Gaingiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"To go across a field the nearest way ; to meet with something. South. GAINFUL.
Tractable ; active. Yorksh. gaingiving. A misgiving. Shot. ..."
2. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"gaingiving (misgiving), Hamlet, v. #. Gait, a springing, Troilus and Cressida, iv.
5 ; a majestic, Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1; Antony and Cleopatra, iii. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Icel. gegn. gaingiving, a misgiving. Hamlet, v. 2. 226. The prefix gain- has the
sense of opposition. ..."
4. Transcripts and Studies by Edward Dowden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"... before he enters Capulet's mansion, like Hamlet's "gaingiving" before the
passage of arms, and dismissed, like his, with an appeal to Providence— " My ..."
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