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graver

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1. graver - Noun

2. graver - Adjective

3. Graver - Proper noun

Meaning

One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

An ergraving or cutting tool; a burin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility. William Jennings Bryan

Homosexuals are not deviating from Islam. Homosexuality is a grave sin, but those who say that homosexuals deviate from Islam are the real deviators. By condemning homosexuals to death they are committing a graver sin than homosexuality itself. Salman al-Ouda

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. Samuel Dash

The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization. Pat Buchanan

Others of graver mien; behold, adorn'd With holy ensigns, how sublime they move, And bending oft their sanctimonious eyes Take homage of the simple-minded throng; Ambassadors of heaven! Mark Akenside

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars. Aristotle

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