All 6 Uses of
bestow
in
War and Peace
- You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more" (this nickname, bestowed on Vera by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), "and your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people!†
Chpt 1bestowed = gave
- "I bestow it with pleasure," said Napoleon.†
Chpt 3 *bestow = give
- "Help comes from God alone," he said, "but such measure of help as our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir.†
Chpt 5
- It became particularly animated toward the end of the evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned.†
Chpt 5bestowed = gave
- So he was brought, quite blind, straight to her, and he goes up to her and falls down and says, 'Make me whole,' says he, 'and I'll give thee what the Tsar bestowed on me.'†
Chpt 5
- She wished to help him, to bestow on him the superabundance of her own happiness.†
Chpt 6bestow = 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.