Usually means: Granting or giving something formally.
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  1. bestowment: Merriam-Webster
  2. bestowment: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bestowment: Vocabulary.com
  4. bestowment: Wordnik
  5. bestowment: Wiktionary
  6. Bestowment, bestowment: Dictionary.com
  7. Bestowment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. bestowment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. bestowment: Rhymezone
  10. Bestowment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. bestowment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. BESTOWMENT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  13. bestowment: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bestowment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Bestowment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bestowment: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bestowment)

▸ noun:  The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal
▸ noun:  Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.

Similar:
conferment, bestowal, giving, donation, begifting, gift, awarding, affordment, blessing, dotation, more...

Opposite:
deprivation, withholding, denial

Adjectives:
actual, divine, gracious, such, liberal, free, special, generous, lavish, wise, direct

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Similar:
conferment, bestowal, giving, donation, begifting, gift, awarding, affordment, blessing, dotation, more...

Opposite:
deprivation, withholding, denial

Adjectives:
actual, divine, gracious, such, liberal, free, special, generous, lavish, wise, direct



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