Noun

gifts

1. Plural form of gift.

A gift or a present is the transfer of something, without the need for compensation that is involved in trade. A gift is a voluntary act which does not require anything in return. Even though it involves possibly a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power, a gift is meant to be free.

In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy.

By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other happier or less sad, especially as a favour, including forgiveness and kindness.

A gift or a present is the transfer of something, without the need for compensation that is involved in trade. A gift is a voluntary act which does not require anything in return. Even though it involves possibly a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power, a gift is meant to be free. In many human societies, the act of mutually exchanging money, goods, etc. may contribute to social cohesion. Economists have elaborated the economics of gift-giving into the notion of a gift economy. By extension the term gift can refer to anything that makes the other happier or less sad, especially as a favour, including forgiveness and kindness

• Gift is heartiest wishes to others. it represents our love and affection to our love ones. i love to give gifts to G.[Priyanka Chaurasia]
• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.
  • Colton

• Give freely to him that deserveth well, and asketh nothing: and that is a way of giving to thyself.
  • Fuller

• The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing."
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A gift—its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you—may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater

• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
  • Martin Luther

• There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
  • Seneca

See also

• Generosity

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