What is "confers"

Usage examples of "confers".

Although these approaches utterly lack any depth, they make up for that in a type of fearless shallowness, the same fearless shallowness that marks the exuberance of Descenders everywhere, that confers great confidence on their reductive pronouncements and makes happy the hand of Thanatos that they so freely wave.

This is another way of expressing the same thing, for it is He who confers the secrets of that power which should be herein expressed.

The citizens of each State unite in their persons all the privileges which that character confers and all that they may claim as citizens of the United States, but in no case can the same persons at the same time act as the citizen of two separate States, and he is therefore positively precluded from any interference with the reserved powers of any State but that of which he is for the time being a citizen.

It confers a common dignity upon the French soldier who dies in Indo-China, the British soldier killed in Malaya, the American life given in Korea.

As a younger and more impulsive mage I learned—the hard way—that shadow walking confers no special protection against the attentions of those creatures that dwell in the dark realm.

And each time we spot one of these larger (deeper) contexts, we find a new meaning conferred on a given holon, because, as we earlier noted, the larger context confers a meaning on its holons that the holons themselves, alone and isolated, do not and cannot possess.

Both the signifiers and the signifieds exist as holons, or whole/parts in a chain of whole/parts, and, as Saussure made clear, it is their relational standing that confers meaning on each (language is a meaningful system of meaningless elements: as always, the regime or structure of the superholon confers meaning on the subholons, meaning which the subholons do not and cannot possess on their own).

The first movement is a descent of the One into the world of the Many, a movement that actually creates the world of the Many, blesses the Many and confers Goodness on all of it: Spirit immanent in the world.

And thus the libidinal God must be resurrected, a resurrection that will confer salvation, in the form of liberation from repression, on all who participate in the Great Libidinal Body as it rises from the dead night of repression and confers free orgasmic release on all who eat of that body and drink of that blood.

I mean now to speak of the blessings which God has conferred or still confers upon our nature, vitiated and condemned as it is.

The Grade of Adeptus Exemptus confers authority to govern the two lower Orders of R.

The Grade of Adeptus Major confers Magical Powers (strictly so-called) of the second rank.

The GOOD kind of training--whose best and highest function is to see to it that every time it confers a satisfaction upon its pupil a benefit shall fall at second hand upon others.

It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for twenty more.

All I ask to carry out my noble purposes, is that direction of forces, which the law confers on you.