Definition of Grant

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Definition of Grant

Grant

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

To assent; to consent.

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

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Grant Quotations

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Grant Translations

grant in Italian is largire, borsa di studio, accordare
grant in Latin is concedo, largior, tribuo, annuo

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