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Quotation dates: 1400-1626
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Gevin(g, vbl. n. Also: gevyng, gewing, -yn(g. [ME. gevyng (13 … ), f. Geve v.] Giving, in various senses.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1420.
Of good gyftis gret gevyng ?1438 Alex. i. 569.
For fare hecht wald ȝe … shame me for hope of geuing ?1438 Ib. ii. 4487.
With his vndemous strakis geuing c1500-c1512 Dunb. xvi. 5.
In geving sowld discretioun be c1500-c1512 Ib. xvii. 1.
Eftir geving I speik of taking 1545 Stirling B. Rec. I. 41.
[The council] ordanes lychtes … to be set out … for geving of lycht to the pepill to se 1555 Acts II. 493/2.
The geuing of curatouris to minouris 1579 Edinburgh Testaments VII. 212.
The geving doun of [an] inuentar 1580 Ib. 350 b.
Ane prophane … geving ouer iu maner of legacie 1591 Criminal Trials I. 242.
For gewing of ane ryng to the said Anny 1596 Reg. Privy C. V. 313.
The making, writting, and geving oute of the said infamous letter 1622-6 Bisset I. 221/7.
That nane argoun ane uthir in geving of his voit(b) 1466 Acts Lords Auditors 4/2.
Tuiching the gevin oure of ane annuel 1474 Treasurer's Accounts I. 3.
For the resignacione of certane landis, and gevin of thame to him agane c1420 Wynt. viii. 7033 (C).
Throw gewyn [R. gyvyn] and debonerte His mennys hartis til hym wan he ?1438 Alex. ii. 7010.
Geuin our all hes lordschip, For geuin dois men wirship 1551 Protocol Book of Sir William Corbet 17.
That the gewyn of this seissyng … be na hurt [etc.] 1595 Misc. Spald. C. V. 61.
At the gevin of the bankatt to my Lord Duke
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