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Bestow   /bɪstˈoʊ/   Listen
Bestow

verb
(past & past part. bestowed; pres. part. bestowing)
1.
Present.  Synonym: confer.  "Bestow an honor on someone"
2.
Give as a gift.
3.
Bestow a quality on.  Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend.  "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"



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"Bestow" Quotes from Famous Books



... all they took away was what they brought, except a great feeling of exhilaration and enthusiasm. To send the hearer away stepping light, and his heart beating fast—this is oratory—which isn't so much to bestow facts, as it is to impart a feeling. This Hypatia surely did. Her theme was Neo-Platonism. "Neo" means new, and all New Thought harks back to Plato, who was the mouthpiece of Socrates. "Say what you will, you'll find it all in Plato." Neo-Platonism is our New Thought, ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... to its ancient customs, sweeping away the liberals, and reestablishing the government of caballeros. "For God and for the King!" Ortega was shot on the coast of Catalonia when his Carlist expedition failed, and the Popess remained in Majorca, ready to bestow her money upon new ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... this God of the Jews was the Lord of men's souls and consciences; that they were to obey God rather than man. So he was taught that the God of the Jews was no mere star or heavenly influence who could help men's fortunes, or bestow on them a certain fixed destiny; but a living person, the Lord and Master of the fire, and of all the powers of the earth, who could change and stop those powers at His will, to deliver those who trusted ...
— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley

... attention to it, as well as of that Latin dress which would have facilitated an English translation. It is well known, moreover, that Luther formed a most humble estimate of his own writings, and was uniformly reluctant to collect his works in volumes, or bestow upon them any editorial care. He seemed perfectly willing to have them sink to oblivion, and could not be persuaded by the most urgent representations to do anything which might rescue them from such a fate. Besides, it is to be ...
— The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained • Martin Luther

... Everybody, indeed, had come down from the mountains. And this immense throng found at the Grotto the divine food that it hungered for, a feast of the Marvellous, a sufficient meed of the Impossible to content its belief in a superior Power, which deigned to bestow some attention upon poor folks, and to intervene in the wretched affairs of this lower world, in order to re-establish some measure of justice and kindness. It was indeed the cry of heavenly charity bursting ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola


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