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- verb Present participle of
bestow .
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Examples
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The American Library Association, in bestowing on me their highest honor, turned me from a frog into a prince.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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He is the Giant who most frequently bequeaths nicknames, and he's the most free in bestowing identities too.
A Provocateur and a Role Model Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010
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The American Library Association, in bestowing on me their highest honor, turned me from a frog into a prince.
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It is true that God was good to Canada in bestowing upon it untold riches but it took a great people to overcome the difficulties that Providence placed in your way.
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Nor was he interested, primarily, in bestowing honors, either upon the living or the dead.
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They seemed to feel they had me under their protection, and vied with each other in bestowing upon me the most considerate attention of which they were capable.
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It is not by many, or any, chances that I have to wet my feet; so there is small generosity in bestowing two pairs on you or the Doctor.
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God receives men into His fatherly favor, manifested in bestowing prosperity [Calvin].
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He, with a noble goodness all his own, took infinite delight in bestowing to prodigality the treasures of his mind and fortune on the long-neglected son of his father's friend, the offspring of that gifted being whose excellencies and talents he had heard commemorated from infancy.
I.2 1826
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Belinda was silent; but, after a pause, she said, 'That it was certainly very dangerous, especially for women, to trust to fancy in bestowing their affections.'
Belinda 1801
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