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

The tone in which the Captain made this long speech was as pleasant and courteous as though he were announcing the conferment of a favour.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert

His services to education in Scotland were now recognized by the conferment of the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the university of Edinburgh in 1871.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various