bestowal

Examples of bestowed

bestowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It was, however, bestowed upon him only in the eleventh century and there is no evidence that he ever travelled there.
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.
If value really is bestowed by the love of others, then these unnoticed things have no value.
It was an alternative 'identity ' that the collective bestowed on its members.
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.
The teeth, that is, are now shown or bestowed as objects by a controlling self, now have an emotional life of their own.
Thus, it is understandable that holders of this view are troubled by the legitimacy bestowed on the constructivist approach by the dual-process approach.
He bestowed powers to enact byelaws and indirect taxes - such as forestry, hygiene, title registration and civil procedure - and profit from cocoa plantations and subdivisions.
This illumination is freely bestowed on only some.
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