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

It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

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

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

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 Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly