Word of the Day: Grant

grant / grant

 

verb

 

1. to give approval to or fulfill a request

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Philip Stanhope, 4^th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773

 

2. to allow as a right, favor, etc.

One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors.

French Proverb

 

3. to formally give or bestow

Covet wealth, and want it; don’t, and luck will grant it.

Chinese Proverb

 

4. to concede

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, 1759-1797

 

noun

 

1. something bestowed, usually a monetary amount

Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not – and is not – a grant of rights to the citizenry.

Jacob G. Hornberger, 1950-

 

2. a transfer of land or property

Previous to that he had accepted a grant of lands, and had taken up his abode in the Colony.

from ‘Stories of Georgia’ by Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908