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 great mass of the Republicans stopped short of the demand for the conferment of suffrage on the negro.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie
At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
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
