bestowment

Definition of Bestowment in English :

1. bestowal, bestowment

a gift that is bestowed or conferred

the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bestowment

verb (transitive)

1.

to present (a gift) or confer (an award or honour)

2. archaic

to apply (energy, resources, etc)

3. archaic

to house (a person) or store (goods)

verb transitive

1.

to give or present as a gift

often with on or upon

2.

to apply; devote

to bestow much time on a project

3. Archaic

to put or place, as in storage

4. Archaic

to provide lodgings for; house

5. Obsolete

to give in marriage

tr.v. be·stowed, be·stow·ing, be·stows

1. To present as a gift or an honor; confer: bestowed high praise on the winners.

2. To apply; use: "On Hester Prynne's story ... I bestowed much thought" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

3. To place or stow: "He bestowed [the money] in his pockets with feigned composure" (James Joyce).

4. To store or house.