award
verb (used with object)
to give as due or merited; assign or bestow.
awarder
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a word derived from
award.
Example Sentences
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Alas! thou Destiny, awarder of bitterness, wretched! and thou dread shade of Œdipus! and dark Erinnys! verily art thou great in might.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
The man who has the instinct for comradeship will "bring home hearts by dozens" when the virtuous and well-balanced awarder of the good-conduct prizes in life's school will leave his fellows cold.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
Alas! alas! thou Destiny, awarder of bitterness, wretched! and thou dread shade of Œdipus! and dark Erinnys! verily art thou great in might.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
And if to every Mardian, conscience be the awarder of its own doom; then, of these tribes, many shall be found exempted from the least penalty of this sin.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
O yet, supreme awarder, 10 Virgin, save it in ages on for ever.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Robinson Ellis
