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Definition of Bestows
1. bestow [v] - See also: bestow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestows
Literary usage of Bestows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the by Adam Smith (1817)
"CHAPTER I. Of the Beauty which the Appearance of Utility bestows upon all the
Productions of Art, and of the extensive Influence of this Species of Beauty. ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"“You will say,” I suppose, “that the sun bestows on visible objects not only the
quality of being seen, but also their generation, growth and nurture, ..."
3. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"ASK ME NO MORE WHERE JOVE bestows Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June
is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, ..."
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