Crossword clues for bestowment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestowment \Be*stow"ment\, n.
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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 bestowments.
--I. Taylor.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour. 2 Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.
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.