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begifting en · NOUN

Etymology

From begift + -ing.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act or process of giving or bestowing gifts; endowment.
   • The more heinous and violent the crime, the greater the gifts. In this manner the perpetrator was once more urged to become a member of the community. He was absorbed back through this elaborate process of begifting. 1994, Jenifer Levin, Water dancer:
   • Just as she knows that she has every right to expect begifting and support, so he knows that he can expect sexual favors. 1977, Deborah Pellow, Women in Accra: options for autonomy:
   • Good music can hold us enwrapped as with a begifting as well. One gets the more involved in listening to music, mostly classical, when it seeps in to you to the very soul. 2011, Elsa De Visser, Interlinked:

begifting en · VERB

Etymology

From begift + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of begift
   form of begift
   • With bitterness then, he blamed the Texan and the young law students, accusing them of causing the university more than $600000 worth of damage and discouraging others from begifting it. 1974, Ronnie Dugger, Our invaded universities: