Word Meanings - DONATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

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• DONOR
  One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. Kent. Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman. (more info) 1.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• GIVER
  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.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.
• TERGIVERSATE
  To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. Bailey. (more info) to turn one's back, to shift; tergum back + versare, freq. of vertere
• LAWGIVER
  One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
• TERGIVERSATION
  1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall. 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel,
• ALMSGIVER
  A giver of alms.