conferment
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"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
How far the discipline of the Law actually produced the Chosen People postulated in its conferment is a subtle question for pragmatists.
From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Israel Zangwill
This is the first authentic instance of the conferment of the imperium upon a private citizen.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
But Athanasius apprehended this redemption as a conferment, from without and from above, of a divine nature.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.
From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word