bestowment

Example Sentences

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"The power to laugh, to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment upon man."

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett

In substance or anticipation, this one bestowment contains all good things of God.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Will they be worthy to tread the earth as children of the common Parent, and to look forward, not only for His blessing here, but for His benignant bestowment of happiness hereafter?

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

She had attained all that any woman could desire in the way of the world’s bestowment.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

God hath wise reasons for the bestowment of gifts, and, in someway, gets glory to himself thereby.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew