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Bestowment

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour.

n. Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal.

n. That which is given or bestowed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of giving gratuitously; a conferring.

n. That which is conferred or given; a donation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift

n. a gift that is bestowed or conferred

Word Usage

" In the Hotel Chelsea the Indian woman beckons and smiles for she stands upon her magic carpet the one she dropped on his patio and he didn't know it then but that dropping of her rug was a blessing a bestowment an endowment of free-floating fortune if not goodness and in the dream he goes to her."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gift giving

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

bountifulness garden-stuff immanence nobis rankness