All 3 Uses of
bestow
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?†
Scene 2.2 *bestow = give
- I pledge your grace; and, if you knew what pains I have bestow'd to breed this present peace, You would drink freely: but my love to ye Shall show itself more openly hereafter.†
Scene 4.2
- O, if I had had to have made new liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you.†
Scene 5.5bestowed = gave
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.