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Definition of Bestowed
1. bestow [v] - See also: bestow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestowed
Literary usage of Bestowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"... faith is made firm, hope is strengthened, and charity is enkindled and enlarged.
3. For in this Sacrament Thou hast bestowed many good 5 Psalm cxlvii. ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"During -the summer of 1689 several high spiritual dignities became vacant, and
were bestowed on divines who were sitting in the Jerusalem Chamber. ..."
3. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"CHAPTER XIII WHEREIN MOTHER LOVE Is bestowed ON ELNORA, AND SHE FINDS AN ASSISTANT
IN MOTH HUNTING ELNORA awoke at dawn and lay gazing around the unfamiliar ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"... Freeman. a collection of books in the Eastern languages, late brought out of
Italy,' that the same might be bestowed on the Public Library in Cambridge. ..."
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