Crossword-Solution: CONFERMENT 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

One curious edict of this date had for its object the conferment of duly graded civil rank, the right to salutes at official visits, and similar ceremonial privileges, upon Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, and priests of the missionary body in China.

Yes, and this last with particular care, since the conferment of healthy children upon the country is a work of absolute importance." Further, pointing to a grey headstone with a worn inscription, he shouted (or almost did so): "Under that stone lies buried the body of a man who never in his life loved but one woman, but ONE woman.

The conferment of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from affording secure asylum to the author of a heinous crime.

Let there be no confusion about the purpose of the suggested conferment of power to make decisions effective.

There was some objection to the proposal on the ground of national pride and resentment at the idea of being held responsible; but a juster appreciation led to the reflections that irresponsibility was a Prussian ideal of government, that a better cause for national pride arose from the general confidence in a nation's integrity implied in the conferment of the mandate, and that only those whose deeds were evil need fear the intrusion of international light upon their methods of administration.