bestowment
Example Sentences
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Standing at the distance of a hundred years, we are able to measure in some degree the magnitude of this bestowment.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
This transcendent pledge of love is the guarantee for the bestowment of every other needed blessing.
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
The audience was a large and brilliant one, composed of members of both races, and was quite demonstrative in the bestowment of applause and in floral offerings.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by James M. Trotter
When we come to ask mercy of God, and to pray for grace to love and serve him, we may plead and expostulate for the bestowment.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
If anything can enhance the magnitude of this promised bliss, it is the concluding words of the verse, in which He grounds His plea for its bestowment: “I will—that they behold my glory;”—why?
From The Words of Jesus by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
