confer
verb (used without object)
to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
conferment
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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
How far the discipline of the Law actually produced the Chosen People postulated in its conferment is a subtle question for pragmatists.
From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Israel Zangwill
The delineation of God as unreconciled, of the work and sufferings of Christ as a substitution, of salvation as a conferment, caused gratitude, tender devotion, heroic allegiance in some.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
The tone in which the Captain made this long speech was as pleasant and courteous as though he were announcing the conferment of a favour.
From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang
The preliminaries, formal or otherwise, to the conferment of degrees have now been described.
From The Oxford Degree Ceremony by Joseph Wells
