bestowal
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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 went to Michael Lewis, the man who coined the phrase, and conveyed his bestowal of blessings.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012
I wonder if the bestowal made us just a little bit different.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2011
How often do we pray for the bestowal of a blessing, and forget to pray for its continuance?
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
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