All 5 Uses

bestow
in
Ella Enchanted
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She meant to bestow a gift.†
p. 3.1 *

bestow = give
She had probably bestowed a gift on the newlyweds that was as gladly received as mine had been.†
p. 123.2

bestowed = gave
She closed her fists over them and marched oft: I was penniless, stripped of the power that even a few coins bestow.†
p. 169.2

bestow = give
I thought it was only fair to be a child, since I always bestowed obedience on infants.†
p. 194.5

bestowed = gave
You won't bestow any more gifts, then?†
p. 194.9

bestow = give

Definitions:

(1) (bestow)
to give -- typically to present as an honor or give as a gift
(2) (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.