All 6 Uses of
bestow
in
Great Expectations
- In my hunger for information, I made proposals to Mr. Wopsle to bestow some intellectual crumbs upon me, with which he kindly complied.†
p. 115.7 *bestow = give
- I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a plan in outline for bestowing a dinner of roast-beef and plum-pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension, upon everybody in the village.†
p. 155.9bestowing = giving
- "This is a gay figure, Pip," said she, making her crutch stick play round me, as if she, the fairy godmother who had changed me, were bestowing the finishing gift.†
p. 166.5
- The judicious parent, having nothing to bestow or withhold but his blessing, had handsomely settled that dower upon them after a short struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was "a treasure for a Prince."†
p. 198.5bestow = give
- I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere.†
p. 251.9bestowed = gave
- Put me aside for ever,—you have done so, I well know,—but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle.†
p. 385.3bestow = give
Definitions:
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(1)
(bestow) to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in classic literature, bestow can also mean to give more generally or to put, place, or store (to stow) something somewhere.