Definition of Confer

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Definition of Confer
	Confer To bring together for comparison; to compare. To grant as a possession; to bestow. To contribute; to conduce. To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate. Related Definitions: As, Bestow, Bring, Compare, Comparison, Conduce, Consult, Contribute, Deliberate, Discourse, For, Grant, Have, Possession, To, Together

Confer Quotations

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Pope Benedict XVI

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Publilius Syrus

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Publilius Syrus

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Henri Bergson

Confer Translations

confer in Spanish is conferir

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