bestowment

Example Sentences

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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 Maclaren, Alexander

She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world’s bestowment.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

Cool, that is to say, as the day permitted; for the sun was fervent, and pouring down his beams with an overwhelming lavishness of bestowment.

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan

The honor of thy great name is concerned—it unites with our necessities in requiting the bestowment of the mercies which we ask.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

For the Muses, however often and earnestly invoked, are never lavish in the bestowment of their favors.

From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.