granter
Example Sentences
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The biggest break from formula arrives through Long, the wish granter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
Of course, that’s exactly the role that “natural law” played for America’s founding fathers, who invoked nature rather than God as the granter of rights and the arbiter of right and wrong.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2015
The granter retains an interest in the land similar to that of the donor of an estate for life, to whom the land reverts after the life estate is ended.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
He was regarded as the supreme arbiter, as the granter of victory and of the spoils of victory, as the god of justice, as the terror of evil doers and the protector of the just.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
Demeter, granter of fruits, many sheaves vouchsafe to the cornfield, Aye to be skilfully tilled, and reaped, and the harvest abundant.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
