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The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift
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bestowment
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour. 2 Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestowment \Be*stow"ment\, n. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. --Chauncy. That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gift that is bestowed or conferred [syn: bestowal ] the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn: bestowal , conferral , conferment ]
Usage examples of bestowment.
He who believes that a universal devotion to politics would most speedily achieve the end of politics, namely, the supersedure of its whole machinery by the arrival at a selfrectifying observance of the conditions of private and public welfare--must advocate the bestowment of legislative and other public functions on women.
The runes endowed clear-sightedness from her seeress Aunt Sybil, a good ear from her own father, Colin Songsmith, and a few other gifts that were more on the order of well wishes than magical bestowments.