Definition of Confers

1. Verb. (third-person singular of confer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confers

1. confer [v] - See also: confer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confers

conferential
conferment
conferments
conferrable
conferral
conferrals
conferred
conferree
conferrees
conferrence
conferrences
conferrer
conferrers
conferring
conferruminate
confers (current term)
confertus
conferva
confervaceous
confervae
conferval
confervas
confervoid algae
confervous
confess
confessable
confessaries
confessary
confesse
confessed

Literary usage of Confers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"It confers the " character " of belonging objectively to Christ, to his " body," the Church. This character is indelible, and depends only upon the due ..."

2. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (1853)
"A very small return seems due to that foolish and profuse generosity which confers the greatest benefits from the most trivial motives, and gives an estate ..."

3. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1903)
"Naked occupancy of the public mineral lands confers no title—Rights of such occupant. § 217. Rights upon the public domain cannot be initiated by forcible ..."

4. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"Domicil Neither confers nor Forfeits Citizenship. The better rule and the one which, apart from the special matter of belligerent domicil, ..."

5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"... AND THR BENEFITS WHICH HE confers ON US. IT is a just observation of Augustine, that although heretics profess the name of Christ, yet he is not a ..."

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