All 4 Uses of
bestow
in
The Merchant of Venice
- I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon your worship; and my suit is— LAUNCELOT.†
Scene 2.2bestow = give
- I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this: These things being bought and orderly bestow'd, Return in haste, for I do feast to-night My best esteem'd acquaintance; hie thee, go.†
Scene 2.2
- If it be so, How little is the cost I have bestowed In purchasing the semblance of my soul From out the state of hellish cruelty!†
Scene 3.4bestowed = gave
- Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.†
Scene 5.1 *
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.