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

In the MS. the word may be either "granter" or "grantor."

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

This example was followed by the Laird of Abercairny, who held a tack of the lands of Tullichettle, which Sir William Stirling of Keir, the granter, was called on to warrant.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

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 Armstrong, Walter, Sir