Word Finder - gifts

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Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

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A talent or natural ability.

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She had a gift for playing the flute.

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Something gained incidentally, without effort.

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The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

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The office is in the gift of the President.

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To give as a gift or donation.

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To give away, to concede easily.

The gifts are almost like enhanced senses.

She can absorb and channel the gifts of others.

She sent your gifts and said to convey her news of a child.

The town of Ouray was so oblivious to these frequent winter gifts from Mother Nature that snow caused not a hitch in the local activities.

Her extrasensory gifts returned.

Nishani put her gifts aside and crossed her legs in her seat before flicking on the battle planner.

Not the least valuable of the gifts of the " tsar emancipator," Alexander II., to Russia was the judicial System system established by the statute (Sudebni Ustav) of the 10th of November 1864.

They'd traveled over a fortnight on the king's largest ship, bearing silks, game, and swords to offer as gifts with the barbarians.

Her body wouldn't be placed in a funeral pyre or surrounded by family and friends who bore her gifts one last time.

He also made himself very popular in Paris by his large gifts to the poor in time of famine, and by throwing open the gardens of the Palais Royal to the people.

When the guest parted from his host he was often presented with gifts (EEvta), and sometimes a die (avr pay aXos) was broken between them.

Powell wrote several treatises and also some hymns, but his chief gifts were those of a preacher.

He will soon shake all nations and their choicest gifts will be brought to adorn His house.

The Jews would have thought that He had returned to Sinai, the holy mountain; and that they were deprived of the temporal blessings which were the gifts of a God who literally dwelt in the midst of his people."

The gifts of each were adopted and bore fruit on both sides of the Channel.

The one form, which probably arose from the conception of Yahweh as in an especial sense the protector of the poor, was that gifts to God may properly be bestowed on the needy, and that consequently alms have the virtue of a sacrifice.

Homage was paid to him by the rabbinical heads of the colleges (each of whom was called Gaon, q.v.); rich gifts were presented; he visited the synagogue in state, where a costly canopy had been erected over his seat.

The sun and the air are God's free gifts to all we say, but are they so?

She felt tears in her eyes at the small reminder of her past life and hugged the gifts to her chest.

She shot him a look and stepped from the house, moving toward the field with the gifts at her side.

Kiera squeezed the gifts to her chest and walked back to the house, lost in thought.

She always sent extravagant gifts to her daughter.

He used his gifts to get him home, fast, after another of his senses tipped him off.

If the whole congregation be talking with tongues all at once, and an unbeliever or one with no experience of pneumatic gifts come in, what will he think, asks Paul.

He early discovered his vocation as a preacher of indulgences; he combined the elocutionary gifts of a revivalist orator with the shrewdness of an auctioneer.

Otto's mental gifts were considerable, and were so carefully cultivated by Bernward, afterwards bishop of Hildesheim, and by Gerbert of Aurillac, archbishop of Reims, that he was called "the wonder of the world."

He had wonderful gifts of insight, and spoke to the birds.

Whatever their origin, sacrifices tend to be interpreted as gifts to the god.

This latter idea was the more likely to arise, as the gift theory of sacrifice is closely associated with that of the god as the ruler or king to whom man brings a tribute, just as he had to appear before his earthly king bearing gifts in his hands.

By reason of collections already made and additional gifts, the museum at once took high rank.

He closed his eyes and summoned his power to Travel, one of the most useful gifts Damian granted him.

Their gifts were inseparable from themselves.

Your magic gifts have blossomed, and they've attracted the attention of others with magic gifts.

They cleaned the room, folded the chairs and carried the gifts out to his truck.

He did not, however, possess the qualities which impress the populace, and he lacked the strength which is one of the essential gifts of a statesman.

A correct sense of proportion and the faculty of seizing upon the dominant factors in an historical problem are the result partly of the possession of certain natural gifts in which many individuals and some nations are conspicuously wanting, partly of general knowledge of the working of the economic and political institutions of the period we are studying, partly of what takes the place of practical experience in relation to modern problems, namely, detailed acquaintance with different kinds of original sources and the historical imagination by which we can realize the life and the ideals of past generations.

Mithras was born of a rock, the marvel being seen only by certain shepherds, who brought gifts and adored him.

Godly love is the highest of the spiritual gifts.

Miriam said, "I'm sure you are aware that Elisabeth has special gifts."

When the gifts were all packed in the truck, Carmen left Alex at the truck and went back in to thank Mums and those who had remained at the house.

Where do you want to put the gifts?

He was a man of remarkable literary gifts as well as a good soldier.

All his gifts were made available for influencing other men by his easy command of a style rarely matched in dignity and colour.

I am going to have a Christmas tree in the parlor and teacher will hang all of my gifts upon it.

When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at their heels, any carload of fashionable furniture.

But he did not fulfil the expectations which had been formed on the strength`' of his colonial reputation; he took no very prominent part in debate, and gave little evidence of his undoubted oratorical gifts.

It received from its estates, from tithes and other fixed dues, as well as from the sacrifices (a customary share) and other offerings of the faithful, vast amounts of all sorts of naturalia; besides money and permanent gifts.

Tribute was received from Tyre and Sidon; and Jehu, who was now king of Israel, sent his gifts of gold, silver, &c., to the conqueror.

Catherine loaded him with gifts.

From 1847 to 1851 he arranged gifts from France to American libraries aggregating 30,655 volumes, and a gift of 50 volumes by the city of Paris in 1843 (reciprocated in 1849 with more than 1000 volumes contributed by private citizens) was the nucleus of the Boston public library.