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Example sentences for "bestowment"

Lexicographically close words:
bestowed; bestower; bestowes; bestoweth; bestowing; bestowments; bestows; bestrew; bestrewed; bestrewn
  1. He did me the honor to appoint me one of the almoners of this bounty, so I am not left merely to conjecture how much time and caution were put in requisition to insure as far as practicable the judicious bestowment of these parcels of land.

  2. The abundance of that bestowment is expressed by that word, 'poured.

  3. Thus he, who has no system in the bestowment of his bounties, is always finding excuses to turn off the edge of arguments and the force of appeals; though perhaps with the resolution of giving liberally at some future period.

  4. There are many links in the chain of influences which God employs in rescuing sinners from death; and one of the most effectual at the present period, is the bestowment of funds to send forth the heralds of salvation.

  5. The bestowment of a birthday present, was an expression of paternal regard, but what different dispositions and tendencies did it call forth, and what a different moral effect did it produce!

  6. But there will be no waste by the bestowment of what we cannot take.

  7. The renewing process follows upon the bestowment of the new life, and works from its deep inward centre outwards and upwards to the circumference and surface of our being, on condition of our own constant diligence and conflict.

  8. So the gift may ebb away from a man, from a community, from an epoch, not because God's manifestation and bestowment fluctuate, but because our receptivity changes.

  9. Defn: The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

  10. Defn: The bestowment of a largess or gift.

  11. The reader will call to mind that this Simon Magus is mentioned and condemned in the Acts of the Apostles, for offering to pay Peter for a bestowment of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  12. To these two ladies whose learning has been recognized by the Universities of St. Andrews and Heidelberg, in the bestowment upon them of the degree of LL.

  13. This comprehends deliverance from merited sufferings, and the bestowment of happiness which is the contrast of it.

  14. God hath wise reasons for the bestowment of gifts, and, in someway, gets glory to himself thereby.

  15. The honor of thy great name is concerned--it unites with our necessities in requiting the bestowment of the mercies which we ask.

  16. Then and there they receive the gift of the Divine Spirit, as is more fully recorded in John's account of these last days, but that gift, rich and precious as it was, was not yet the full bestowment which they needed for their task.

  17. A partial bestowment of the Spirit, which is the Father's promise, took place while Jesus spoke.

  18. In substance or anticipation, this one bestowment contains all good things of God.

  19. Verse 11 fills up the measure of the bestowment of grace on sinful men.

  20. He has made the bestowment of the gift to be simultaneous with the exercise of the faith.

  21. She teaches that God has made the bestowment of salvation simultaneous with the exercise of faith, and that "telling a person to believe he is saved, before he is saved, is telling him to believe a lie.

  22. It is not a case of retribution, meaning thereby the arbitrary bestowment of a certain fixed gift in response to certain virtues, but it is a case of outcome, and the old metaphor of sowing and reaping is the true one.

  23. The Gospel is the gift of pardon for holiness, and its inmost and most characteristic bestowment is the bestowment of a new power for obedience and service.

  24. But without dwelling on that, let us consider this great gift and dignity of being children of God, which is the object that God has in view in all the lavish bestowment of His goodness upon us.

  25. Christ is the only begotten Son, that the manifestation is for the world, and that its end is the bestowment of everlasting love.

  26. LXIX Who did it, was a dapper gentleman, Paul Desforges Maillard, Croisickese by birth, Whose birth that century ended which began By similar bestowment on our earth Of the aforesaid René.

  27. There 's still as much again Of our bestowment left to right the wrong "Done by its earlier moiety--explain Wherefore, who may!

  28. Mark the brief simplicity of the quiet words in which the greatest bestowment ever made on humanity, the beginning of an altogether new era, the equipment of the Church for her age- long conflict, is told.

  29. If you will trust yourselves to Him you will have that eternal life, which is not wages, but a gift; which is not reward, but a free bestowment of God's love.

  30. Mr Elliott had been on shore in the morning, and had engaged rooms for them in a quiet street, and thither Allan Ruthven, carrying little Rose, was to conduct them, while he attended to the proper bestowment of their baggage.

  31. The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

  32. It rendered certain the bestowment of eternal life upon all who would so use common grace and the means of common grace as to make it morally possible for God as a wise and holy Governor to grant his special and renewing grace.

  33. It secured the bestowment upon all of common grace, and the means of common grace; 3.

  34. Always and necessarily the capacity or organ of reception precedes and determines the bestowment of blessings.

  35. Farther, this one great gift draws all other gifts after it, because the purpose of the greater gift cannot be attained without the bestowment of the lesser.

  36. Then, on the other hand, the other queenly figure has her hands filled with one great gift which, like the fatal bestowment which Sin gives to her subjects, has two aspects, a present and a future one.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bestowment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.