Noun investiture has 2 senses
  1. coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, investiture - the ceremony of installing a new monarch
    --1 is a kind of initiation, induction, installation
    Derived forms: verb invest3, verb invest4
  2. investment, investiture - the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
    --2 is a kind of promotion
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