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

At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

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

It implies the conferment on the people of power hitherto unknown in their history.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

Sulla obtained the formal conferment on himself of absolute power.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir