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

The delineation of God as unreconciled, of the work and sufferings of Christ as a substitution, of salvation as a conferment, caused gratitude, tender devotion, heroic allegiance in some.

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

It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

The appointment to the principate originally involved the conferment of the imperium, the tribunician power and other rights and privileges.

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