bestowal
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We pointed out that in tribal culture, the bestowal of a name carries with it a duty to live up to that name.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
With the bestowal of the Knopf emblem, the coursing Borzoi dog that has long served as an imprimatur of literary quality, he conferred on a book almost instant cachet.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2019
The Framers understood that corruption flows not merely from express exchanges of money for performance, but from the insidious distortion of loyalty arising from the bestowal of gifts and favors.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019
I wonder if the bestowal made us just a little bit different.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2011
And as feudal forms were observed in the bestowal, so were they sometimes in the taking away.
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