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A gift that is bestowed or conferred
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bestowal
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Word definitions for bestowal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1773, from bestow + -al (2).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the act of bestowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestowal \Be*stow"al\, n. The act of bestowing; disposal.
Usage examples of bestowal.
Whether the bestowal of benefits and the return of gratitude for them are desirable objects in themselves?
He does not wish anything to be given to him in return, or else it becomes an exchange of commodities, not a bestowal of benefits.
Therefore the father can never be surpassed in the bestowal of benefits, because the benefit which surpasses his own is really his.
Of all the matters which we have discussed, Aebutius Liberalis, there is none more essential, or which, as Sallust says, ought to be stated with more care than that which is now before us: whether the bestowal of benefits and the return of gratitude for them are desirable objects in themselves.
To take thought, not where your benefit will be best bestowed, but where it may be most profitably placed at interest, from whence you will most easily get it back, is not bestowal of benefits, but usury.
Besides this you inquire where and how you ought to bestow a benefit, which would not need to be done if the bestowal of a benefit was desirable in itself: because in whatever place and whatever manner it might be bestowed, it still would be a benefit.
As the infliction of injuries is a thing to be avoided, so is the bestowal of benefits to be desired for its own sake.
Is there any one who does not regard the returning of a kindness, and the bestowal of a benefit, as distinct acts?
Now Christ needed neither the remission of sin, which was not in Him, nor the bestowal of grace, with which He was filled.
From all these instances it is clear that Christ, when He willed, changed the minds of men by His Divine power, not only by the bestowal of righteousness and the infusion of wisdom, which pertains to the end of miracles, but also by outwardly drawing men to Himself, or by terrifying or stupefying them, which pertains to the miraculous itself.
It is therefore manifest that the sacraments of the Old Law were not endowed with any power by which they conduced to the bestowal of justifying grace: and they merely signified faith by which men were justified.
For the sacraments of the New Law are ordained for the purpose of cleansing from sin and for the bestowal of grace.
Further, every consecration employed in the sacraments is ordained to the bestowal of grace.
This is the bestowal of divine idealism, the crown adorning human heads.
Love is the conscious bestowal of God, the bond of affiliation in all phenomena.