bestowment

Example Sentences

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It will be easy to devote the accessories, when the principal bestowment has been rendered. 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

The reader will call to mind that this Simon Magus is mentioned and condemned in the Acts of the Apostles, for offering to pay Peter for a bestowment of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

Of all nations they only have possessed this right; for they only received it by special bestowment.

From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.

Will they be worthy to tread the earth as children of the common Parent, and to look forward, not only for His blessing here, but for His benignant bestowment of happiness hereafter?

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

Baptism in infants, is the pledge of the bestowment of those blessings purchased by Christ for all.

From American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon)