Confers
[kən'fə:z]
Examples
- Only application tests them, and only testing confers full meaning and a sense of their reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Analytical Chemist goes to the door, confers angrily with unseen tapper, appears to become mollified by descrying reason in the tapping, and goes out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Miss Stepney, when her first fright had subsided, began to feel the superiority that greater breadth of mind confers. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- What is it that confers the noblest delight? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For it builds up a social interest and confers the intelligence needed to make that interest effective in practice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Chemistry especially has always had irresistible attractions for me from the enormous, the illimitable power which the knowledge of it confers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Certainly, he confers a benefit. Plato. The Republic.
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