bestowment
Example Sentences
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Will they be worthy to tread the earth as children of the common Parent, and to look forward, not only for His blessing here, but for His benignant bestowment of happiness hereafter?
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
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 James M. Trotter
This gift is alike creditable to the venerable men of your Association in its bestowment and to the State of Oregon in its acceptance.
From Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Frederick Van Voorhies Holman
Standing at the distance of a hundred years, we are able to measure in some degree the magnitude of this bestowment.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
True charity is not that feeling which prompts merely to the bestowment of worldly goods for the benefit of others—in fact, true charity has very little to do with alms-giving and public benefactions.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
