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GIFTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Endowed with talent or talents
Example:
a gifted writer
Synonyms:
gifted; talented
Classified under:
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb gift
Context examples:
"You," I said, "a favourite with Mr. Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Gifted men found a companion in him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
After the removal of the cloth, and the singing of Non Nobis (beautifully executed, and in which we were at no loss to distinguish the bell-like notes of that gifted amateur, WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, JUNIOR), the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were severally given and rapturously received.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of understanding than her young friend.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You may need things that you did not have the time to buy in earlier months, so in January, perhaps armed with holiday cash gifted from relatives, you are ready to browse the Internet or shops.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"I don't see how you can write and act such splendid things, Jo. You're a regular Shakespeare!" exclaimed Beth, who firmly believed that her sisters were gifted with wonderful genius in all things.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I don't care if Hugo does come at me with a pistol, returned Amy, who was not gifted with dramatic power, but was chosen because she was small enough to be borne out shrieking by the villain of the piece.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
