bestow
verb (used with object)
bestowment
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a word derived from
bestow.
Example Sentences
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She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world’s bestowment.
From A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder
The audience was a large and brilliant one, composed of members of both races, and was quite demonstrative in the bestowment of applause and in floral offerings.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
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.
From Wych Hazel by Susan Warner
So the gift may ebb away from a man, from a community, from an epoch, not because God's manifestation and bestowment fluctuate, but because our receptivity changes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Verse 11 fills up the measure of the bestowment of grace on sinful men.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
