Meanings
- uncountableThe act or process of giving or bestowing gifts; endowment.
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 autonomy2 more examples
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 dancerGood 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
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund 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
Origin
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