Word Meanings - KEEPSAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

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• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• TOKEN
  A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl. (more info) OS. tekan, D. teeken, G. zeichen, OHG. Zeihhan, Icel. takan,
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• TOKENED
  Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence. Shak.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• TERGIVERSATE
  To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. Bailey. (more info) to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• LAWGIVER
  One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
• FORETOKEN
  Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNFRIENDSHIP
  The state or quality of being unfriendly; unfriendliness; enmity. An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person. Sir W. Scott.
• TERGIVERSATION
  1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall. 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel,
• ALMSGIVER
  A giver of alms.