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

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

This is the first authentic instance of the conferment of the imperium upon a private citizen.

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

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

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