Converse of object

• bestow: I do not believe that death bestows instant sainthood.

• confer: Is history being rewritten simply so we can confer sainthood on a modern business visionary?

• achieve: It was the exciting moment when I simultaneously starred in the film Saturday Night Fever and achieved sainthood.

Adjective modifier

• secular: Willie himself is perhaps the closest the Scottish theater has ever come to the kind of secular sainthood McIlvanney confers upon Docherty.