Synonyms for confers
con·fers

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1. List of paraphrases for "confers":

   gives, vests, attaches, lends, provides, bestows, assigns, grants, entrusts

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1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

2. Demosthenes:

   He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

3. Demosthenes:

   He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

4. Max Kellerman:

   And it either holds in contempt the intelligence of people who hear it or else it’s just a stupid thing to say. … To say you must have respect for the office — Tiger, be clear. Are you saying that the office, therefore, confers respect onto its present temporary occupant ? No. Having respect for the office means principally, in my view, is the office holder should have respect for the office.

5. Roger Starr:

   Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.