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Definition of Bestowing
1. bestow [v] - See also: bestow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestowing
Literary usage of Bestowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"As for my feeble mind, that I will leave. behind me, for that I shall have no
need of in the place whither I go; nor is it worth bestowing upon the poorest ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1860)
"An illustration of this will appear in the following brief explanation of the
Indian mode of bestowing and changing names. The Indian has no family name. ..."
3. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"... vein of the leaf and then moving a short distance aside and bestowing the
remainder on the adjacent twig—dividing them thus, as do many other insects, ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... Plato said to him: —" You philosophers, freend Plato, sup better the day
following than the night present." OF bestowing TIME, AND HOW WALKING UP AND ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... bestowing of their children, the father wholly respects wealth, when through
his folly, riot, indiscretion, he hath embezzled his estate, ..."
6. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"And 'tis a general fault amongst most parents in bestowing of their children,
the father wholly respects wealth, when through his folly, riot, indiscretion, ..."
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