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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

It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

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

Sulla obtained the formal conferment on himself of absolute power.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The appointment to the principate originally involved the conferment of the imperium, the tribunician power and other rights and privileges.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly