[f. BESTOW v. + -MENT.]
1. The action of bestowing; bestowal.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will, IV. v. (ed. 4), 314. God’s bestowment of the benefit.
1871. Browning, Balaust., 1536. Such things as bear bestowment, those thou hast.
2. concr. That which is conferred; a gift.
1837–40. Haliburton, Clockm. (1862), 118. I had that are bestowment ever since I was knee high or so.
1856. R. Vaughan, Mystics, III. iv. (1860), I. 81. Angels and Archangels have at their command only subordinate bestowments.
