"begifting" meaning in English

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          "text": "Just as she knows that she has every right to expect begifting and support, so he knows that he can expect sexual favors.",
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          "ref": "1994, Jenifer Levin, Water dancer",
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          "text": "Good music can hold us enwrapped as with a begifting as well. One gets the more involved in listening to music, mostly classical, when it seeps in to you to the very soul.",
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