bestowal

How To Use bestowal In A Sentence

• Patrons remained in the superior social position, even if they failed to reciprocate their clients' public bestowals of loyalty and honor.
• Or was the bestowal of a glass of wine regarded as a necessary courtesy in broaching or sealing these unsentimental transactions?
• The goddess is now depicted as a blind power, and hence as completely careless and indiscriminate in the bestowal of her gifts.
• Most of the given bestowals of nature have their given species-specified natures: they are each and all of a given sort.
• In part, the inspiration consisted of the unpredictable bestowal of excessive praise and undeserved blame, a technique which he would later use to such effect with his own pupils.
• Indeed, if my dear husband is reading, the previous sentence does not apply to you, as the regular bestowal of gifts is part of the marriage contract.
• Moreover, the language was changed in LBW from a benedictory bestowal formula to an epicletic prayer formula as in Baptism where the Spirit's gifts are also named: ‘the spirit of wisdom and understanding…’.
• There is no 'godlikeness' without such bestowal, such 'imagining' into life. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
• A person's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.
• It had been told him that his admission into the Order had been connected with the bestowal of temporal goods, and from this comes the sin called simony, which consists in the purchase of something spiritual with something temporal. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself.