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accordance
Agreement; conformity:
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  1. Agreement; conformity:
  2. The act of granting.
  3. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
bestowment
The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour.
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  1. The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour.
conference
The act of conferring, as of an academic degree.
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  1. The act of conferring, as of an academic degree.
  2. A meeting of committees from both branches of a legislature to reconcile the differences between bills passed by both branches
  3. A meeting for consultation or discussion.
conferral
The act of conferring something; conferment
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  1. The act of conferring something; conferment
  2. A conferring of an honor, degree, or favor; bestowal
grant
One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.
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  1. One of several tracts of land in New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont originally granted to an individual or a group.
  2. The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.
  3. Something granted, especially a giving of funds for a specific purpose:
presentation
A formal introduction of someone to others, as at court.
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  1. A formal introduction of someone to others, as at court.
  2. (Med.) The position of the fetus in the uterus at the time of delivery, with reference to the part presenting itself at the mouth of the uterus
  3. A request to the bishop to institute the clergyman named
Find another word for bestowal. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bestowal, like: accordance, bestowment, conference, conferment, conferral, grant, presentation and give.

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  • The results were published in 1885 in his Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis, and their importance was recognized by the bestowal in 1886 upon him, conjointly with Professor Pickering, of the Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal.

  • Notwithstanding the pontiffs bestowal of the apostolic benediction in articulo mortis upon Victor Emmanuel, the attitude of the Vatican had remained so inimical as to make it doubtful whether the conclave would be held in Rome.

  • The final imposition of hands and the bestowal of power to forgive sins at the end of the ordination rite for priests in the Roman Pontifical is later even than the tradition of instruments.

  • The bestowal of alms, offerings of rice to priests, the founding of a monastery, erection of pagodas, with which the country is crowded, the building of a bridge or rest-house for the convenience of travellers are all works of religious merit, prompted, not by love of one's fellowcreatures, but simply and solely for one's own future advantage.

  • had ruled almost up to the time of the bestowal of his tetrarchy upon Agrippa, and therefore to the days of John the Baptist.

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