grant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gränt
ipa: /ɡɹɑːnt/
enpr: grănt
ipa: /ɡɹænt/
enpr: grŏnt
ipa: /ɡɹɒnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: grants
form: granting
form: granted
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form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: grant
form: grant
form: granted
form: grant
form: grantest
form: granted
form: grantedst
form: grants
form: granteth
form: granted
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form: -
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form: graunt
Etymology: From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit.
Senses: examples: text: He was granted permission to attend the meeting.
text: The genie granted him three wishes
antonyms: deny
glosses: To give (permission or wish).
examples: text: He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
ref: 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
text: c. 1930, Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity[…]
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
glosses: To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
examples: text: The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
ref: a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause"
text: "They are tall, certainly," said Sir Chetwynd... "I grant you they are tall. That is, the majority of them are. But I have seen short men among them. The Khedive is not taller than I am. And the Egyptian face is very deceptive. The features are often fine,—occasionally classic,—but intelligent expression is totally lacking."
ref: 1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter I”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, pages 23–24:
synonyms: concur
concede
allow
glosses: To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
examples: text: Before I would have granted to that act.
But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To assent; to consent.
Derived terms: grantable
regrant
ungrant