begifting

English

Etymology

From begift +‎ -ing.

Noun

begifting (uncountable)

1. The act or process of giving or bestowing gifts; endowment.
   • 1977, Deborah Pellow, Women in Accra: options for autonomy:

     Just as she knows that she has every right to expect begifting and support, so he knows that he can expect sexual favors.

   • 1994, Jenifer Levin, Water dancer:

     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.

   • 2011, Elsa De Visser, Interlinked:

     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.

Verb

begifting

1. present participle and gerund of begift
   • 1974, Ronnie Dugger, Our invaded universities:

     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.