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Bestowment   Listen
noun
Bestowment  n.  
1.
The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. "If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view."
2.
That which is given or bestowed. "They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments."





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"Bestowment" Quotes from Famous Books



... sent him back; I called him and not his wife. I had that 'ere bestowment ever since I was knee high or so; I'm a real complete hand at ventriloquism; I can take off any man's voice I ever heerd to the very nines. If there was a law agin forgin' that as there is for handwritin', I guess I should have been hanged ...
— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... "I am almost frightened at seeing to what an extent literary criticism becomes difficult, when it refrains from arrogance and from insult, claiming for itself both an honest freedom of judgment and the right to participate largely in the bestowment of deserved praise, as well as to maintain a certain cordiality even in its reservations." "If Diderot was as far as possible from being a dramatic poet, if he was destitute of that supreme creative power which involves the transformation ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various
... do not consider the welfare and happiness of their children in future life, and their own happiness in connection with them as they advance towards their declining years, as of sufficient importance to call for the bestowment of this time and attention, will doubtless often resort to more summary methods in their discipline than ...
— Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young • Jacob Abbott
... provision for the poorer classes, both of the Israelites and Strangers. Not laying on burdens, but lightening them—they were a grant of privileges—a bestowment of favors. ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment ...
— Cheerfulness as a Life Power • Orison Swett Marden


Words linked to "Bestowment" :   conferral, giving, bestowal


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