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Bestowment

noun
1.
A gift that is bestowed or conferred.  Synonym: bestowal.
2.
The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift.  Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral.






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"Bestowment" Quotes from Famous Books



... the world giveth, give I unto you.' Our Lord contrasts, as it seems to me, primarily the manner of the world's bestowment, and then passes insensibly into a contrast between the character of the world's gifts and His own. That phrase 'the world' may have a double sense. It may mean either mankind in general or the whole external and material frame of things. I think we may use both significations ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... might have celebrated her son, and, if she had expressed a general sense of divine goodness in his bestowment, would have dwelt with satisfaction upon his premature indications of greatness. Inordinate attachment to the gift is apt to obliterate from the mind a grateful recollection of the giver; and to this forgetfulness we ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox

... genial mood of last night and the morning, but cool and gay, as it was his fashion to be; though gravely and punctiliously attentive to his charge. Cool, that is to say, as the day permitted; for the sun was fervent, and pouring down his beams with an overwhelming lavishness of bestowment. ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner



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