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Giver

Giver \Giv"er\, n. One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.

It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian.
--Kollock.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
giver

mid-14c., from give + -er (1). Old English agent-noun forms were giefend, giefa.

Wiktionary
giver

n. One who gives; a donor or contributor.

WordNet
giver
  1. n. someone who devotes himself completely; "there are no greater givers than those who give themselves"

  2. person who makes a gift of property [syn: donor, presenter]

Wikipedia
Giver (TV series)

Giver is a Canadian children's television series, which premiered on TVOntario's TVOKids programming block in 2012. Hosted by Michael Lagimodiere, each episode of the series enlists a team of local children to assist in creating, designing and building a new or renovated public park in an Ontario community in collaboration with professional designers and contractors.

The series is a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 and the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.

Usage examples of "giver".

Out of the rubble of this body, I created Abraxas anew, Abraxas the perfect god, the giver of life, the force of good and evil, because it was my destiny to do so.

Fire Lotusor poor Bulbul or my Lord Zeid, whose mad whims need more gold than he earns from the Space Giver lamps?

At last the reply came that I ought to return the portrait, but to the giver, since to send it to the husband would be an act unworthy of a man of honour.

The supper for which the giver of the feast had received three thousand guineas, or sixty-five thousand francs, contained a most varied assortment of delicacies, but as I had not been dancing, and did not feel taken with any of the ladies present, I left at one in the morning.

He moved down the line of kneeling figures, holding the sacred image out for them to kiss, the lingam of Beloved Angkhdt, giver of life.

Camilla, when she perceived her two little sprigs, which in her recent disorder she had dropt, were demolishing under the feet of Indiana, who, with apparent unmeaningness, but internal suspicion of their giver, had trampled upon them both.

This is the meaning of the Psalmist, that the weather is not a dead machine, but a living, wonderful work of the Spirit of God, the Lord and giver of life.

Once before, the Space Givers tried to refashion the planet in a generation.

Mister Monday and Sneezer had talked about, who he presumed was also the giver of the Atlas.

Neither ought we to give after long delay, because in all good offices the will of the giver counts for much, and he who gives tardily must long have been unwilling to give at all.

The Hummel box had been a perfect solution, apparently intended for the mother to wind up for her child: secretly designed to be touched by the woman and, perhaps, to remind her of the giver.

Frances was getting boxes of diamonds, and sets of furs and lace, and what not, and it was useless for Deb to attempt to outbid the giver of these things, or to part her sister from them.

Whenever the Prime Minister had a problem on which he wanted advice uncoloured by the ambitions of its giver, it was Grosart that he called.

If the givers are dead and the person has chil- dren, the edge goes to the child who is complete.

We could not but mark that many of the givers were men whose threadbare doublets and pinched faces showed that the wealth which they were dashing down so readily must have been hoarded up for such a purpose, at the cost of scanty fare and hard living.