conferment
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"It's an Anglican ceremony and the anointing is essential to that as the conferment of God's grace on the monarch," says Dr David Torrance, who has written a parliamentary research paper on coronations.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023
Sulla obtained the formal conferment on himself of absolute power.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The great mass of the Republicans stopped short of the demand for the conferment of suffrage on the negro.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
His services to education in Scotland were now recognized by the conferment of the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the university of Edinburgh in 1871.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
