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
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
Louis XIV
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Bryant H. McGill
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
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding
Bestow Translations
bestow in German is spenden
bestow in Latin is largior
bestow in Norwegian is gi, skjenke
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