bestowment
Example Sentences
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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 Susan Warner
Baptism in infants, is the pledge of the bestowment of those blessings purchased by Christ for all.
From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker
He had nothing of that choice prudence which seems to have been the guide of others, of our family in the bestowment of their affections.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
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 Robert Wallace
It created, no doubt, considerable bitterness and jealousy in certain sections of society in England, as it was believed that the King was unduly partial to his own countrymen in the bestowment of his favours.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
