gift
noun
something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
giftless
-
a word derived from
gift.
Example Sentences
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But as the people gather together, giftless, they join hands and sing while the narrator tells viewers, “Christmas came anyway.”
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2019
To stockholders the reorganization is one of the nicest gifts of an almost giftless year.
From Time Magazine Archive
So fared they, giftless ever, and no help of fortune sought.
From The Pilgrims of Hope by William Morris
I will not seek nor sue her, For I'm neither fonder nor truer Than when she slighted my lovelorn youth, My giftless, graceless, guinealess truth, And I only lived to rue her.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
All you chieftains, for most of the mightier men are such, as were bound by alliances to him, I let it be known that no one of the greater men shall go away giftless.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
