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Conferrer

noun
1.
Person who makes a gift of property.  Synonyms: bestower, donor, giver, presenter.
2.
Someone who converses or confers (as in a conference).





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"Conferrer" Quotes from Famous Books



... that,' said Ethel; 'but indeed, Tom, I see what you mean, and like it. It is yourself, and not the conferrer of the benefit, that you ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... sound or smell [1].' Between the first and last chapters there is a correspondency, and each of them may be considered as a summary of the whole treatise. The difference between them is, that in the first a commencement is made with the mention of Heaven as the conferrer of man's nature, while in this the progress of man in virtue is traced, step by step, till at last it is equal to that of High Heaven. 9. I have thus in the preceding paragraphs given a general and somewhat copious review of this Work. My object has been to seize, if I could, the ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version • James Legge
... it at last as without sound or smell [1].' Between the first and last chapters there is a correspondency, and each of them may be considered as a summary of the whole treatise. The difference between them is, that in the first a commencement is made with the mention of Heaven as the conferrer of man's nature, while in this the progress of man in virtue is traced, step by step, till at last it is equal to that of High Heaven. 9. I have thus in the preceding paragraphs given a general and somewhat copious review of this Work. My object ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) • James Legge
... Between the first and last chapters there is a correspondency, and each of them may be considered as a summary of the whole treatise. The difference between them is, that in the first a commencement is made with the mention of Heaven as the conferrer of man's nature, while in this the progress of man in virtue is traced, step by step, till at last it is equal to that of High Heaven. 9. I have thus in the preceding paragraphs given a general and somewhat copious review of this Work. My object has been to seize, if I could, ...
— THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version • James Legge


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