bestowment
Example Sentences
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For the Muses, however often and earnestly invoked, are never lavish in the bestowment of their favors.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.
Cool, that is to say, as the day permitted; for the sun was fervent, and pouring down his beams with an overwhelming lavishness of bestowment.
From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan
This transcendent pledge of love is the guarantee for the bestowment of every other needed blessing.
From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
So the gift may ebb away from a man, from a community, from an epoch, not because God's manifestation and bestowment fluctuate, but because our receptivity changes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander
If by sovereingty we mean that God has absolute power to do whatsoever He pleases, then it will comprehend the penalty of transgression, as well as the bestowment of good.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
