granter

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The biggest break from formula arrives through Long, the wish granter.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

Of course, that’s exactly the role that “natural law” played for America’s founding fathers, who invoked nature rather than God as the granter of rights and the arbiter of right and wrong.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2015

May we thy servants serve thee with songs, O granter of riches, thou who lovest songs and delightest in riches.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

He was regarded as the supreme arbiter, as the granter of victory and of the spoils of victory, as the god of justice, as the terror of evil doers and the protector of the just.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Demeter, granter of fruits, many sheaves vouchsafe to the cornfield, Aye to be skilfully tilled, and reaped, and the harvest abundant.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn