What is "gifting"

Usage examples of "gifting".

He was standing outside the bedroom door when it occurred to him that he still had the custom of gifting to deal with.

Then again, maybe it would help Ari understand a man’s feelings where the custom of gifting was concerned.

Then, as the last notes faded back into Oran Mor, the Great Music, as waves fall back into the gifting sea, we heard a crash.

Many another Christian among us did the same, while others began singing a hymn of praise to the Gifting God, and the dusky hills echoed with the holiest of sounds.

But though he missed the feast entirely, and was almost late for the gifting, he never got near enough for her to hear him.

Just before he turned to go, however, the composition of the cluster around her suddenly shifted, and she surfaced, like a drowning woman, and shot him one wild, despairing look before being swallowed up again, to be swept past him to the gifting tables.

It is almost as if they view death as a punishment for the audacity of having accepted the Gifting Giver's boon of life, or as the sorry and inevitable end of sinful flesh.

When Emlyn prayed, he merely spoke his mind to his Creator, the Gifting Giver, he so evidently loved.

I had professed my faith in God to provide for us, and the appearance of young Lord Roupen seemed to be the Gifting Giver's way of answering our need.

I stumbled to the steaming basin and washed, praising the Gifting Giver for the luxury of soap.

Pelleas, following me, was lost and never returned — may the Gifting God grant him mercy.

Yet, lest men think that I cared only for the Gifting God in what I could get from him, I kept my joy to myself.

He walked slowly, prodding the naked men in their genitals with the tip of the quirt, gifting each with a rude remark.

On her thirteenth birthday, she had taken the cup of womanhood from the hand of her priestess, and since then, the giftings that she had made of her body—to Judith most often, but also to some of the gentler harper lads of the school whom she had loved as she now loved Kevin—had been colored with a sacredness that, despite differences of culture and history, she had hoped to share with Kevin.

And when I was then thrust into a place of service, giftings that might have taken decades to develop before were now bestowed as if overnight.