Word Finder - granted

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(ditransitive) to give (permission or wish)

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He was granted permission to attend the meeting.

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(ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

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To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true.

synonyms

• allow
• concede
• concur

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To assent; to consent.

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Used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument

example

Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.

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Used to concede a point, often before stating some contrasting information.

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"You haven't been a very good father." "Granted."

I don't want to take you for granted, anyway.

I granted you immortality.

Granted, what you're saying could have worked, but that doesn't mean it did.

He'd hoped to be granted the same level of power as his predecessor.

Granted, he wasn't exactly himself at the time, near dead, starved, weak.

Granted, he was Death, and she was offering a partnership running the underworld instead of deferring to him in his role in charge of the underworld.

I guess I took you for granted.

It can take growth for granted and thus overtax.

He'd trade all the powers Damian granted him after the Schism for his sister's life.

Had they been taking him for granted?

The enigmatic Tim's request for a favor was readily granted after three generations of both their families working together towards the PMF's goals of national unity.

A weekly market on Saturday granted by Richard I.

That Rhyn of all his brothers would be granted such an honor as an Ancient.s mate made a mockery of everything.

Granted that the majority are able at last either to own or hire the modern house with all its improvements.

With regard to administrative matters, Moscow was granted a constitution.

Granted, Death's soul radar just kicked in.

She relaxed and sank into the soft leather seats of the Town Car, telling herself she was being granted a chance to be normal.

The dhjan has granted us permission to address you.

She'd never spoken of them to anyone, not since being granted access to a file only a handful of people in the country had access to.

Brady and his men paused after two rigid security inspections and being granted permission to enter.

Mme Dudevant was granted sole legal rights over the two children and her Paris home was restored to her.

Charters granted to seaports often stipulated that the town should send so many herrings or other fish to the king annually during Lent.

Another charter, confirming former liberties but altering the constitution of the corporation, was granted in 1611.

In 1598 a cessation of hostilities was arranged, and a formal pardon granted to Tyrone by Elizabeth.

About £20,000 is granted annually by the state for the purposes of education.

At the Pacification of Birks the king virtually granted all the demands of the Scots.

John de Mohun granted other charters in 1301 and 1307.

Dinefawr Castle and its estates were granted away by Henry VIII.

In the 17th century Teplitz belonged to the Kinskys, and after Kinsky's murder (25th February 1634) the lordship was granted by Ferdinand II.

With Mademoiselle Bourienne's help the princess had maintained the conversation very well, but at the very last moment, just when he rose, she was so tired of talking of what did not interest her, and her mind was so full of the question why she alone was granted so little happiness in life, that in a fit of absent-mindedness she sat still, her luminous eyes gazing fixedly before her, not noticing that he had risen.

On the 18th of February 1843 a royal charter of incorporation was granted to the society, and a permanent status was thus acquired.

Archbishop Hamilton, however, who now granted the decree, had himself obtained a papal dispensation for the marriage, 1 and in consequence it is extremely doubtful whether according to the Roman Catholic law Bothwell and Mary were ever husband and wife.

The first permanent settlement was made by Duarte Coelho Pereira at Olinda in 1530, and four years later he was granted a capitania of 50 leagues extending from the mouth of the Sao Francisco northward to that of the Iguarassu.

His request was immediately granted, and thus it came about that Hansen's famous Tables de la Lune were dedicated to La Haute Amiraute de sa Majeste la Reine de la Grande Bretagne et d'Mande.

Moreover, every Norman to whom he granted lands and offices held them by English law in a much truer sense than the king held his; he was deemed to step into the exact position of his English predecessor, whatever that might be.

In 1465 a second annual fair on the 1st of May was granted by Edward IV., which is still held on the Wednesday in Whitsun week.

As a further tribute of national recognition the "college" or "gild" of poets and actors was granted a place of meeting in the temple of Minerva on the Aventine.

As new settlers came, as the people of conquered towns were moved to Rome, as the character of Romans was granted to some allies and forced upon some enemies, this plebs, sharing some but not all of the rights of citizens, became a non-privileged order alongside of a privileged order.

By this change power is not granted to every citizen, but it is put within the reach of every citizen.

That in the better times of the aristocracy nobility was not uncommonly granted to worthy persons, that in its worse times it was more commonly sold to unworthy persons, was the affair of the aristocratic body itself.

That coat-armour has been lavishly granted and often assumed without right, that the word "gentleman" has acquired various secondary senses, proves nothing; that is the natural result of a state of things in which the status of gentry carries with it no legal advantage, and yet is eagerly sought after on social grounds.

During his residence in Germany Lomonosov married a native of the country, and found it difficult to maintain his increasing family on the scanty allowance granted to him by the St Petersburg Academy, which, moreover, was irregularly sent.

On the other hand, Christians and Jews are pretty well agreed on natural theology; so the New Testament tends to take its theism for granted.

Stolypin defended the ukaz of the 2nd of June 1907, which in flat contradiction of the provisions of the fundamental laws altered the electoral law without the consent of the legislature, on the ground that what the autocrat had granted the autocrat could take away.

In 1894 municipal institutions, with still more restricted powers, were granted to several towns in Siberia, and in 1895 to some in Caucasia.

Here, on the 14th of September 1829, was signed a treaty by which the Porte ceded to Russia the islands at the mouth of the Danube and several districts on the Asiatic frontier, granted full liberty to Russian navigation and commerce in the Black Sea, and guaranteed the autonomous rights previously accorded to Moldavia, Walachia and Servia.

Stolypin indeed defended the coup d'etat in the Duma on the ground that the autocrat had merely altered what the autocrat had originally granted; but, while laying stress on the necessity for restoring order in the body politic, he announced a long programme of reforms, including agrarian measures, reform of local government and its extension in the frontier provinces, and state insurance of workmen.

By making them in longer lengths a reduction was effected in the number of joints - always the weakest part of the line; and another advance consisted in the substitution of wrought iron for cast iron, though that material did not gain wide adoption until after the patent for an improved method of rolling rails granted in 1820 to John Birkinshaw, of the Bedlington Ironworks, Durham.

The orders actually granted have allowed 50 lb, 56 lb, 60 lb and 70 lb rails, with corresponding axle loads of 10, 12, 14 and 16 tons.

They expressed the opinion that an improvement could be effected enabling the construction of many much-needed lines by an amendment of some of the provisions of the Light Railways Act, and by a reconsideration of the conditions under which financial or other assistance should be granted to such lines by the state and by local authorities.