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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bestow/bɪˈstəʊ/

▶verb

1 confer (an honour, right, or gift).

2 archaic put (something) in a specified place.

– derivatives
bestowal noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘use for, devote to’): from be- + OE stōw ‘place’.

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