Bestowing

Word BESTOWING
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Definitions and meanings of "Bestowing"

What do we mean by bestowing?

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

To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation.

To dispose of.

To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone or something, especially as a gift or honour.

To give in marriage.

To apply; make use of; use; employ.

To behave or deport.

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The word "bestowing" in example sentences

The American Library Association, in bestowing on me their highest honor, turned me from a frog into a prince. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is the Giant who most frequently bequeaths nicknames, and he's the most free in bestowing identities too. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (1954)

Nor was he interested, primarily, in bestowing honors, either upon the living or the dead. ❋ Unknown (1940)

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. ❋ Unknown (1901)

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. ❋ Unknown (1883)

God receives men into His fatherly favor, manifested in bestowing prosperity [Calvin]. ❋ Unknown (1871)

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. ❋ Unknown (1826)

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.' ❋ Unknown (1801)

'Here, my Lord, permit me to introduce to you my younger sister; I bespeak your affection for her, and think you will find no difficulty in bestowing it.' ❋ Eliza (1793)

They are his wonderful works, the contrivance of them admirable, his condescension to us in bestowing them upon us admirable; eternity itself will be short enough to be spent in the admiration of them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The apostle mentions the great end and design of God in bestowing all these spiritual privileges, that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ -- we to whom the gospel was first preached, and who were first converted to the faith of Christ, and to the placing of our hope and trust in him. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The gracious prudence of Paul, in bestowing his time and pains where there was most need. ❋ Unknown (1721)

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding: joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was as Marian had said, the idea that there was something undefinably shameful in bestowing an unsought love, together with the utter impossibility the poor little thing found in helping herself, which had been by far the most painful part of her sufferings; for she was too unfeignedly humble ever to have expected that such an incarnation of all that was grand and beautiful as Mr O'Brian, should ever have loved her as she worshipped him; but she feared that in their last interview, when he left her at the park gate, he had seen how very much she cared for him; and she had a morbid fancy, that disgust at her want of feminine modesty was the cause of this changed manner the next time they met. ❋ Unknown (1845)

Understand that this isn’t a list ranking odd or curious moments during the ceremonies, but rather a critique of the decisions made in bestowing the highest Hollywood honor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If so, there’s no duty of due care for an author’s fragile ego or of deference to the author’s magnanimity in bestowing their work upon the world. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

With Kazakhstani sycophantic political establishment too busy promoting the idea of bestowing upon Nazarbayev the title of "Leader of Nation," no doubt as a present for his upcoming 70th birthday, the chairmanship also missed its chance to diffuse tensions which led to the bloody downfall of Kyrgyz President's Bakiev's regime two months ago and, subsequently, to mediate in Kyrgyzstan's escalating unrest following Bakiev's ouster. ❋ Peter Zalmayev (2010)

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