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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestowment

Bestowment \Be*stow"ment\, n.

  1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

    If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view.
    --Chauncy.

  2. That which is given or bestowed.

    They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments.
    --I. Taylor.

Wiktionary
bestowment

n. 1 The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour. 2 Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.

WordNet
bestowment
  1. n. a gift that is bestowed or conferred [syn: bestowal]

  2. 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.