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Definition of Conferments
1. conferment [n] - See also: conferment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conferments
Literary usage of Conferments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"483 Member of Parliament 341 St. Andrew 130 conferments (1963). ... All Angels
la a St. Michael and St. George Order as5 conferments (1963) .298-9 Knights ..."
2. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"And I separated the obligations and restraints imposed upon the States and their
officers from the conferments of rights and powers upon them, that it might ..."
3. Roman Public Life by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1901)
"Particular conferments, if not made directly by the people, might be effected
through the Senate acting as its delegate,2 or through commissioners charged ..."
4. A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy by William Henry Smith, Whitelaw Reid (1903)
"And I separated the obligations and restraints imposed upon the States and their
officers from the conferments of rights and powers upon them, that it might ..."
5. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1885)
"Here lies a good half of all the value there is in the conferments of thought
and prayer and money that we make to the less favored portions of the earth. ..."
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