Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who grants. Compare
grantor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who grants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
grants
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who grants or gives something
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Examples
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Lord of Yester, to be holden blanch of the granter, which is confirmed the 15th of October, 17th of King David II. anno
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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Mr. Rahr, chief executive of Kinray, the largest privately-held wholesale pharmaceutical distributor, is the organization's largest wish granter.
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He is a granter of wishes, and hers, of course, is for a child.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Catch Hell - Laird Barron Blue Tyson 2010
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He is a granter of wishes, and hers, of course, is for a child.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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[...] [T] oday the state acts as a hands-off licensing bureau and divorce granter, making marriage relatively easy to enter and exit, yet maintain legal marital status as a key determinant of eligibility for more than one thousand federal rights and obligations.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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[...] [T] oday the state acts as a hands-off licensing bureau and divorce granter, making marriage relatively easy to enter and exit, yet maintain legal marital status as a key determinant of eligibility for more than one thousand federal rights and obligations.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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[...] [T] oday the state acts as a hands-off licensing bureau and divorce granter, making marriage relatively easy to enter and exit, yet maintain legal marital status as a key determinant of eligibility for more than one thousand federal rights and obligations.
Bella DePaulo: Challenges to the Privileging of Married People, from Across the Ideological Spectrum 2010
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It is this power of 'Liberty', which is the engine of, and granter of power to the state of that which is called, 'Authority'.
Taking On AIPAC: How to Support Palestinians AND Israel and Peace and Justice 2009
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Some think its a mystickal prison, a power base, a wish granter.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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Some think its a mystickal prison, a power base, a wish granter.
Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009
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