All 4 Uses of
bestow
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Rose Red
- Am I willing to trade that for the wealth and privilege he is certain to bestow upon me?†
Chpt 2bestow = give
- John is foul of mood, and no wonder: he has not won my affections since late April when he bestowed upon me that horrible curse.†
Chpt 3 *bestowed = gave
- Your suspicions are incorrect and ill founded, and I beseech you to use whatever relationships with which you are bestowed to return home at once my most senior staff member, be they, these relationships, with the police, the politicians, or with her abductors themselves.†
Chpt 8
- This sense of power he bestows that both men and women find attractive, even seductive, though for different reasons.†
Chpt 4
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.