Definition of Bestow

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Bestow

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation.

To expend, as money.

To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon.

To give in marriage.

To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun.

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Bestow Quotations

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. Nixon

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
David Ricardo

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Felix Adler

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV

Bestow Translations

bestow in German is spenden
bestow in Latin is largior
bestow in Norwegian is gi, skjenke

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