bestowal

bestow | American Dictionary

bestow
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/bɪˈstoʊ/
to give something as an honor or present:
The country’s highest medal was bestowed upon him for heroism.

Examples of bestow

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It was, however, bestowed upon him only in the eleventh century and there is no evidence that he ever travelled there.
It is used to bestow integrity, or its lack, on a performer, such that an 'authentic' performer exhibits realism, lack of pretence, or the like.
One is the distinction between the moral impetus to avoid and prevent harm versus the lesser, more confined, impetus to bestow benefits.
Further, we have clearly partitioned the sub-controllers (function groups) and bestowed data awareness on them.
Authority to write concluding narratives is bestowed upon experts, often anonymous ones, with the implication of objectivity and detachment.
Like keeping a diary, writing a long personal letter bestowed a personal identity that was separate from the official norms.
Copper coinage was the domestic currency that hitherto had enjoyed a credibility bestowed by its official acceptance.
External extraction of oil surpluses has bestowed upon the oil rich both internal and regional distributive powers.
Lexicographers, like poets, seem able to bestow a special blessing on the succeeding generations who carry on the craft.
If value really is bestowed by the love of others, then these unnoticed things have no value.
Rather, the opposite is the case: the cultural context bestows meaning on money.
At once, then, he bestowed the burden of the warriors.
By the same token, however, if agency is imaginatively bestowed on things, then they can start acting like people.
It is normal and consequently bestowed with the moral feelings of the norm.
It is a law that bestows on them a usage right.
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