Definition of Gifts

1. Noun. (plural of gift) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gifts

1. gift [v] - See also: gift

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gifts

giftbags
giftbox
giftboxes
gifted
giftedly
giftedness
giftednesses
giftee
giftees
gifter
gifters
gifting
giftless
giftpack
giftpacks
gifts (current term)
giftshop
giftshops
giftware
giftwares
giftwrap
giftwrapped
giftwrapping
giftwraps
gifty
gig
gig-lamp
gig-lamps
gig-mill
gig-mills

Literary usage of Gifts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"gifts were viewed by Roman Law with considerable suspicion, partly as often made on the spur of the moment without due reflection, partly as liable to exert ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The gifts of the second class, or charismata, are known to us partly from St. Paul, and partly from the history of the primitive Church, in the bosom of ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"Under the heading " Educational gifts " we have included all donations from private ... We have included, therefore, not only gifts to schools and colleges, ..."

4. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"Their gifts, not expectation, but their joy expressed. Now was the world's long yearning satisfied! Now was the prize long waited for possessed! ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"gifts (i*44) gifts of one who loved me,— 'Twas high time they came; ... Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, ..."

6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"gifts, cauta mortis, have been * 444 a subject of very frequent and ... Such gifts are conditional, like legacies; and it is essential to them that the ..."

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