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
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)
It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
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
Your majesty's conferment took place in the presence of Monsieur, his majesty's late uncle, of the princes, and of the ladies attached to the court.
From Louise de la Valliere by Dumas père, Alexandre
