dotation

How to use dotation in a sentence

• In spite of the huge dotation he received, the Marshal added this supposed slight to the many grudges he bore his master.

  Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison

• The ground of the Poet, my dear Talboys, is an extraordinary dotation of sensibility—of course, ten thousand dangers.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 420, October 1850 | Various

• The dotation of the President is enormous certainly, and I wish for his own sake it had been rather more moderate.

  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II | Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The first monthly payment of the national dotation, calculated to correspond with his civil list, was accepted.

  The Liberation of Italy | Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

• The Minister of Finance presented the bill asking for a dotation for the President.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.--April, 1851--Vol. II. | Various