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
May we thy servants serve thee with songs, O granter of riches, thou who lovest songs and delightest in riches.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
Whereupon Sir Roger, mightily afraid of his spiritual guide and granter of indulgences, rebuked the offending little one, and ordered her out of the room.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
