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Definition of Givers
1. giver [n] - See also: giver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Givers
Literary usage of Givers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Philanthropy: A Study of Efficient Appealing and Giving by William Harvey Allen (1912)
"Giving can never be efficient until a Magna Charta of giving is accepted by both
givers and ap- pealers. Heretofore we have thought more clearly of givers' ..."
2. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"TO RICH givers WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut
and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems, A traveller's ..."
3. The Electrical Engineer (1890)
"Upon receipt of any such requisition as last aforesaid, the givers of the notice
may proceed ... If the givers of the notice decline, or for 24 hours after ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1893)
"Our accessions for the six months just passed have been received from two hundred
and ninety-five givers ; viz. : from forty-four members, one hundred and ..."
5. Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses by Arthur Herbert Church (1893)
"6 —CARBON-COMPOUNDS OR HEAT-givers. The third group of nutrients contains a number of
... Starch is, perhaps, the most important of the heat-givers or ..."
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