All 6 Uses
bestow
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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- —Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed?†
Scene 2.2 *bestowed = gave
- Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia:
Her father and myself,—lawful espials,—Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
We may of their encounter frankly judge;
And gather by him, as he is behav'd,
If't be the affliction of his love or no
That thus he suffers for.†Scene 3.1bestow = give - —Gracious, so please you,
We will bestow ourselves.†Scene 3.1 - I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him.†Scene 3.4 - Bestow this place on us a little while.†
Scene 4.1
- Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
We cannot get from him.†Scene 4.3
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) Much more rarely, in classic literature, bestow can also mean to give more generally or to put, place, or store (to stow) something somewhere.