Both Uses of
bestow
in
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
- But the greatest part of his condescension he had bestowed on Kit, once he had understood that her grandfather had been Sir Francis Tyler.†
p. 60.7 *bestowed = gave
- "Maybe you could at that," he replied, with an air of bestowing a great favor.†
p. 126.0bestowing = giving
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.