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 tone in which the Captain made this long speech was as pleasant and courteous as though he were announcing the conferment of a favour.

From Swift and Sure by Strang, Herbert

Great satisfaction has been evinced in film circles over the conferment of a signal honour on Signor Pavanelli, the outstanding Italian screen luminary.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

But Athanasius apprehended this redemption as a conferment, from without and from above, of a divine nature.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell