bestowment

Example Sentences

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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.

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

She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world’s bestowment.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

Verse 11 fills up the measure of the bestowment of grace on sinful men.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

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