conferment

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"It's an Anglican ceremony and the anointing is essential to that as the conferment of God's grace on the monarch," says Dr David Torrance, who has written a parliamentary research paper on coronations.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2023

At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The preliminaries, formal or otherwise, to the conferment of degrees have now been described.

From The Oxford Degree Ceremony by Wells, Joseph

But Athanasius apprehended this redemption as a conferment, from without and from above, of a divine nature.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

The great mass of the Republicans stopped short of the demand for the conferment of suffrage on the negro.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie