bestowing
present participle ofbestow
| 单词 | bestowing |
| 释义 | bestowing present participle ofbestow bestow verb[Toften passive] formaluk/bɪˈstəʊ/us/bɪˈstoʊ/to give something as anhonourorpresent: The GeorgeCrossis adecorationthat is bestowedupon/onBritishciviliansforactsofgreatbravery. to give something to someone
Giving, providing and supplying
Examplesofbestowingbestowing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Credence was lent their interests by thebestowingof an official name. From theCambridge English Corpus The example is hard to grasp because thebestowingof libertarian freedom and your free choice happen simultaneously. From theCambridge English Corpus Their traditional means of exercising influence over warriors bybestowingor withholding provisions diminished. From theCambridge English Corpus And within this, the judiciary was critical precisely inbestowingconsiderable legal authority on the political system. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead ofbestowing'diffuse support', citizens fall back on performance-based judgements of what democracy actually does for them. From theCambridge English Corpus Then we searched for ways to influence this arbitrary polymerization,bestowingmeaning upon it. From theCambridge English Corpus What does the unmarking of names andbestowingof honorary titles mean in the context of this propaganda-laden system? From theCambridge English Corpus They create dependence withoutbestowingeffective conditionality. From theCambridge English Corpus Thebestowingof alms and the kind visits of ministers and missionaries to those in the second and third categories are viewed as having limited benefit in relieving distress. From theCambridge English Corpus In this form, like the other tzitzimime, he had the ability to heal the sick, especially children, in addition tobestowingupon newly elected officials his generative powers. From theCambridge English Corpus Form does not have a self-contained being separate from matter; but all its being fulfills itself in the force it exerts on matter,bestowingon it aim and direction. From theCambridge English Corpus In this eventuality, psychological continuity of personal identity could be immortalized in a series of cloned selves,bestowingimmortality, and raising anew philosophical questions regarding personal identity. From theCambridge English Corpus Marking a method call as privileged means that stack inspection will stop when it is encountered in the call stack, essentiallybestowingall its permissions to whoever called it. From theCambridge English Corpus Edson's depictions of family life offer a series of grotesque and disturbing characters who seem more intent upon inflicting pain rather thanbestowinglove or affection. From theCambridge English Corpus I must also congratulate him upon the many favours he has beenbestowingupon a great many people outside his own country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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