bestowment

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Indeed, Nature's generous bestowment of talents, or even of genius, is of but little value when the favored one does not assiduously labor to cultivate and develop the same.

From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.

The reader will call to mind that this Simon Magus is mentioned and condemned in the Acts of the Apostles, for offering to pay Peter for a bestowment of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

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 Simms, William Gilmore

The subsequent remarks, however, more especially relate to the bestowment of property, and that whether of capital already possessed, or of income to be acquired by industry.

From Christian Devotedness by Groves, Anthony Norris

If anything can enhance the magnitude of this promised bliss, it is the concluding words of the verse, in which He grounds His plea for its bestowment: “I will—that they behold my glory;”—why?

From The Words of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)