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
The appointment to the principate originally involved the conferment of the imperium, the tribunician power and other rights and privileges.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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
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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The preliminaries, formal or otherwise, to the conferment of degrees have now been described.
From The Oxford Degree Ceremony by Joseph Wells
