Word Meanings - RESPONSELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Giving no response.
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- GIVES
Fetters. - GIVING
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving - RESPONSELESS
Giving no response. - 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. - GIVE
To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign; - RESPONSE
1. The act of responding. 2. An answer or reply. Specifically: Reply to an objection in formal disputation. I. Watts. The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service. A kind of - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - THANKSGIVING
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee - ALMSGIVING
The giving of alms. - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - FUNGIVOROUS
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. - REGIVE
To give again; to give back. - FORGIVER
One who forgives. Johnson. - OGIVE
The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. - THANKSGIVER
One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow. - THANKSGIVE
To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede. - UPGIVE
To give up or out. - LIFE-GIVING
Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. - FORGIVING
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp. - MISGIVE
1. To give or grant amiss. Laud. 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. - ARGIVE
Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n. - 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 - FORGIVE
forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See 1. To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave,