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Giver   /gˈɪvər/   Listen
Giver

noun
1.
Someone who devotes himself completely.
2.
Person who makes a gift of property.  Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, presenter.



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"Giver" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Saxo, a spaeman or prophet, the father of Nanna and the foster-father of Hother. He makes him likewise king of Norway; but Giver is ...
— The Death of Balder • Johannes Ewald

... "Stern law-giver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face. Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And ...
— Education and the Higher Life • J. L. Spalding

... in mercy. Its course is always from the higher to the lower. It is a blessing to both giver and receiver. The greater the mercy shown, the greater will be the giver. To show mercy does more to make a monarch kingly than does his crown. The one stands for the exercise of authority and power commanding obedience and awe; the other comes from the heart ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education

... affecting manner? By doing precisely that which he is said to have done. He directed that one of his own eyes should be put out, and one of his son's. Whose heart is not touched by this most affecting display of the tender pity of the father, in union with the stern justice of the law-giver? His pity would not allow him to inflict the whole penalty upon his beloved son; and his high regard for the demands of public justice would not permit him to set at naught the authority of the law: and but for the possession and manifestation of this last ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe

... Carleton a good home, food to eat, clothes to wear, a house to live in, and friends to love him. I have done this for eight years; but he seldom thanks me. He jumps out of bed, runs to his breakfast, satisfies all his wants, but does not even think of me, the Giver of all his blessings. I will do nothing more for him. After this he shall be a poor, homeless wanderer, suffering from hunger and thirst, from cold and nakedness. I do hate people who don't thank me for the favors ...
— The Lost Kitty • Harriette Newell Woods Baker (AKA Aunt Hattie)


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