bestowment

Example Sentences

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This transcendent pledge of love is the guarantee for the bestowment of every other needed blessing.

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

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.

When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

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 Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies