bestowal

Example Sentences

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The surprise bestowal drew a wave of roaring applause that Obama struggled to quell, and that the rest of the convention struggled to match.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2020

While he no doubt hopes this bestowal of stiff punishment puts the issue to rest, that won’t be the case, anymore than the Mitchell Report ended the scourge of performance-enhancing drugs for baseball.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2020

The Framers understood that corruption flows not merely from express exchanges of money for performance, but from the insidious distortion of loyalty arising from the bestowal of gifts and favors.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2019

I wonder if the bestowal made us just a little bit different.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2011

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah