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

Great satisfaction has been evinced in film circles over the conferment of a signal honour on Signor Pavanelli, the outstanding Italian screen luminary.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

The preliminaries, formal or otherwise, to the conferment of degrees have now been described.

From The Oxford Degree Ceremony by Wells, Joseph

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 Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)