investiture|investitures in English

noun

[in·ves·ti·ture || ɪn'vestɪtʃə(r)]

bestowing; authorization bestowing of authority; inauguration, bringing into office

Use "investiture|investitures" in a sentence

1. Alfonso will demand its investiture.

2. Investiture is distinct from homage.

3. Anointment: as in anointing, investiture

4. A gold rod is also used in the insignia; gold rods were formally used in the investitures of dukes, but survive now in the investitures of Princes of Wales only.

5. The papal investiture of the Kingdom of France.

6. The investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales took place in the castle here.

7. Cataclysmic Gladiator's Investiture is the Season 11 Rogue arena set

8. He was accompanied to the investiture by his pop star wife Victoria and his grandparents.

9. The investiture of the new president will take place this evening.

10. If the main business was investiture and homage, a subsidiary theme was the primacy.

11. It said nothing about investiture or homage: these were matters for the pope.

12. In 1947 Olivier was knighted and Leigh accompanied him to Buckingham Palace for the investiture.

13. The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture.

14. It had no fiefs to be the subject of investiture, no peasant tenure, no peasant serfs.

15. Had he not himself acted thus after hearing the papal decree against lay investiture and clerical homage?

16. This investiture of the grotesqueimpossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick - a trick at best.

17. The first Investiture of the Queen's reign took place at Buckingham Palace on 27 th February 19

18. But my greatest thrill of all came in 1987 with the MBE investiture for services to broadcasting journalism.

19. He had become involved in what is known as the Investiture Dispute, a fierce Church-State Kulturkampf, revolving around the appointments of bishops.

20. During the ceremony of investiture he shocked his relatives by accepting a meal cooked by his nurse, a sudra woman.

21. The anti-investiture decree, however great its symbolic importance(Sentence dictionary), did little to diminish the power of lay rulers over ecclesiastical appointments.

22. He had become involved in what is known as the Investiture Dispute, a fierce Church-State Kulturkampf, revolving round the appointment of bishops.

23. Ahriman is represented in human shape, crushed under the feet of Ohrmazd’s horse in the Sasanian Ardašīr I’s investiture relief at Naqš-e Rostam

24. Territorial Barons and Baronesses are the representatives of the Crown in their Barony. Upon their investiture, they are confirmed as the Baron and/or Baroness of (name of Barony)

25. This involved Pope Gregory VII (pope 1073–85) and Emperor Henry IV, who initially clashed over episcopal appointments, a dispute that turned into a battle over the ideas of investiture, clerical marriage, and simony.