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Definition
to give — typically to present as an honor or give as a gift
- Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — A Lawn before the DUKE'S Palace (12% in)
- If that an eye may profit by a tongue, Then should I know you by description; Such garments, and such years: 'The boy is fair, Of female favour, and bestows himself Like a ripe sister: the woman low, And browner than her brother.'4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — Another part of the Forest (47% in)
- ] You say, if I bring in your Rosalind, You will bestow her on Orlando here?5.4 — Act 5 Scene 4 — Another part of the Forest (5% in)
There are no more uses of "bestow" in As You Like It.
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