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Definition of Gifts
1. gift [v] - See also: gift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gifts
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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