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That, however, needs to be embodied in a particular state, and that state may be such that the loyalty it should garner is forfeited by how it acts.

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  1. transitive verb To gather and store in or as if in a granary.
  2. transitive verb To amass; acquire. See Synonyms at reap.
  3. noun A granary.

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  • The crop Haughmond had not found worth his while to garner was bleaching into early autumn pallor, having ripened and seeded weeks earlier, and among the whitened standing stems all manner of meadow flowers still showed, harebell and archangel, poppy and daisy and centaury, with the fresh green shoots of new grass just breaking through the roots of the fading yield. —  The Potter's Field
  • That, however, needs to be embodied in a particular state, and that state may be such that the loyalty it should garner is forfeited by how it acts. —  Loyalty
  • But -- we've been very lucky to work with John and now James garner, and I think the four of us and the crew have been blessed with them. —  CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2004
  • My sermon that evening was upon wheat and chaff — the former was to be gathered into the garner, the latter burned with fire unquenchable. —  From Death into Life
  • Food and drink and a place to sleep in return for some share of whatever paltry coppers ye manage to garner, "the woman rumbled disgustedly. —  Magic's Promise
 

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  1. Middle English, from garner, gerner, granary, from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin grānārium; see granary.

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  1. from Middle English garner, gerner, rarely greynere, from Old French grenier, transposed gernier, French grenier, dial. guernier = Provencal granier = Spanish granero = Portuguese granel = Italian granajo, granaro, from Latin granarium, usually in plural granaria, a granary: see granary, and cf. garnery, girnel, etc. Cf. garnet, similarly transposed, and of the same ult. origin.
  2. from garner, n.
 

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