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 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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.
From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin
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 Edward Caldwell Moore
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