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investiture Noun the formal installation of a person in an office or rank
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| Immemorial to all his order, this investiture alone will adequately protect him, while employed in the peculiar functions of his office. But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. This investiture of the grotesque and impossible with reality, he looked upon as a trick - a skilful trick at best. |
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