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

How far the discipline of the Law actually produced the Chosen People postulated in its conferment is a subtle question for pragmatists.

From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Zangwill, Israel

This is the first authentic instance of the conferment of the imperium upon a private citizen.

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

Great satisfaction has been evinced in film circles over the conferment of a signal honour on Signor Pavanelli, the outstanding Italian screen luminary.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

His services to education in Scotland were now recognized by the conferment of the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the university of Edinburgh in 1871.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various