grants

Verb

grant (third-person singular simple present grants, present participle granting, simple past and past participle granted)

1. (ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).
   • He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

   Antonyms:

   deny

2. (ditransitive) To give (bestow upon or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request).
   • 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.1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
3. (transitive) To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.
   • 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.a. 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause"

   Synonyms:

   concur, concede, allow

4. (intransitive) To assent; to consent.
   • Before I would have granted to that act.
     But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honor.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...

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