bestowal
- a word derived from bestow.
Example Sentences
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During the Bronze Age, from 3300 B.C. to 1200 B.C., donkeys were sometimes buried with humans, indicating a bestowal of honor on both parties.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023
We pointed out that in tribal culture, the bestowal of a name carries with it a duty to live up to that name.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021
With the bestowal of the Knopf emblem, the coursing Borzoi dog that has long served as an imprimatur of literary quality, he conferred on a book almost instant cachet.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019
The went to Michael Lewis, the man who coined the phrase, and conveyed his bestowal of blessings.
From Slate • Oct. 8, 2012
But here we find in documents, not their bestowal merely, but antecedents and consequences, a beginning, a progress, and a manifold explanation, which stand to the Primacy as signs to the thing signified.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.
