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bestowment

noun

Etymology

From bestow + -ment.

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻ — “to place; to stand (up)”
  2. inherited from bestowen
  3. suffixed as bestowment — “bestow + ment”

Definitions

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

    The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bestowment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA