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  • noun Plural form of bestowal.

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Examples

  • Obviously the opposition must have a hard time criticizing, and actually be unable to provide a healthy check or balance as it exits the government itself when it accepts such bestowals from the tables of the new government.

    Iris Erlingsdottir: The Country We Could Have Been Iris Erlingsdottir 2010

  • Obviously the opposition must have a hard time criticizing, and actually be unable to provide a healthy check or balance as it exits the government itself when it accepts such bestowals from the tables of the new government.

    Iris Erlingsdottir: The Country We Could Have Been 2010

  • This peerless Musa of history was so intensely sacrificing, that the Beloved bestowed him with peerless bestowals, one of which is:

    VISION: THE CLIMAX OF HAJJ mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008

  • This peerless Musa of history was so intensely sacrificing, that the Beloved bestowed him with peerless bestowals, one of which is:

    Archive 2008-11-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2008

  • Guyana, which lies between the Caribbean and South America, is the place where Dr. Ramphal hopes he will be able to bring together and strengthen the links between Latin America and the West, and he has been recognized for his efforts by the bestowals of the Order of the Sun by Peru and the Order of Merit by Ecuador.

    Empires of the Mind: Canada and the Commonwealth 1987

  • Today the greatest of all divine bestowals is teaching the Cause of God for it is fraught with confirmations.

    Japan Will Turn Ablaze! 1960

  • At every moment ye obtain a new vitality from the rain of divine bestowals and ere long ye will produce full grown seeds which are blessed by the care and attention of the Divine Farmer.

    Japan Will Turn Ablaze! 1960

  • The powers of earth cannot withstand the privileges and bestowals which God has ordained for this great and glorious century.

    Compilation on Peace Universal House of Justice

  • Let this century be the sun of previous centuries, the effulgences of which shall last forever, so that in times to come they shall glorify the twentieth century, saying the twentieth century was the century of lights, the twentieth century was the century of life, the twentieth century was the century of international peace, the twentieth century was the century of divine bestowals, and the twentieth century has left traces which shall last forever.

    Compilation on Peace Universal House of Justice

  • May the American people and their government unite in their efforts in order that this light may dawn from this point and spread to all regions, for this is one of the greatest bestowals of God.

    Compilation on Peace Universal House of Justice

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