bestowment
Example Sentences
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This transcendent pledge of love is the guarantee for the bestowment of every other needed blessing.
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
So the gift may ebb away from a man, from a community, from an epoch, not because God's manifestation and bestowment fluctuate, but because our receptivity changes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Indeed, Nature's generous bestowment of talents, or even of genius, is of but little value when the favored one does not assiduously labor to cultivate and develop the same.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
This comprehends deliverance from merited sufferings, and the bestowment of happiness which is the contrast of it.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
