bestowment

Example Sentences

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God hath wise reasons for the bestowment of gifts, and, in someway, gets glory to himself thereby.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

Of all nations they only have possessed this right; for they only received it by special bestowment.

From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.

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)

"The power to laugh, to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment upon man."

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

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