conferment
- a word derived from confer.
Example Sentences
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"It's an Anglican ceremony and the anointing is essential to that as the conferment of God's grace on the monarch," says Dr David Torrance, who has written a parliamentary research paper on coronations.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2023
The great mass of the Republicans stopped short of the demand for the conferment of suffrage on the negro.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Great satisfaction has been evinced in film circles over the conferment of a signal honour on Signor Pavanelli, the outstanding Italian screen luminary.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
