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/grˈæntəd/ /grˈæntɪd/ /grˈænəd/ /grˈænɪd/ Listen

verb

Grant v. t. (past & past part. granted; pres. part. granting)

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; usually in answer to petition. "Grant me the place of this threshing floor."

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. "Wherefore did God grant me my request."

To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede. "Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree."

Synonyms: Syn. To give; confer; bestow; convey; transfer; admit; allow; concede. See Give.

Grant v. i. To assent; to consent. (Obs.)

adjective

granted adj.

Given.

(Logic, Rhetoric) Acknowledged or assumed as a supposition.

Synonyms: given.

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"Granted" Quotes from Famous Books

... these, and would appropriate to themselves in the structure of government a representation not based on individual manhood but on other grounds. If it be still allowed that all men should have a share in a self-government, it is yet maintained that a share should be granted, in addition, to educated men and owners of property, and to descendants of such men who have founded permanent families with an inherited capacity, a tradition, and a material stake. Yet these three things, education, property, and ancestry, are in the front ...

— Heart of Man • George Edward Woodberry

... has not always valued them according to their true and priceless worth, she has never failed to number them with the choicest jewels in the casket of Holy Scripture. Nevertheless, it may be freely granted that the teaching of Jesus has not always received its due at the Church's hands. "Theology," one orthodox and Evangelical divine justly complains, "has done no sort of justice to the Ethics of Jesus."[1] But in our endeavour to rectify one error on the one side, let us see to it that we do ...

— The Teaching of Jesus • George Jackson

... friend of M. de Secondat. Apropos of Voltaire, he has had the King of Prussia sounded to know if he would consent to give him asylum at Wesel in case he were obliged to leave his abode. This his Majesty has very willingly granted. ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... on the part of the community to the ruler, the latter conceives it merely as the issue of a (revocable) commission: in the view of the one, the sovereignty of the people is entirely alienated, "transferred," in that of the other, administrative authority alone is granted, "conceded," while the sovereign prerogatives remain with the people. Bodin is the founder of the theory of absolutism, to which Grotius and the school of Pufendorf adhere, though in a more moderate form, and which Hobbes develops to the last extreme. ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... is legal. By act of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets a marriage may be accomplished by the contracting parties declaring the fact orally, or by writing to the department of registry of marriage. Divorce is granted by petition of both or either party upon proof ...

— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore

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