bestow

The rationale for the visit, after all, is explicitly symbolic: the president will bestow the Medal of Freedom on the chancellor.

He gave her the impression of a petty tyrant about to bestow largess upon an obsequious and fawning slave.

We learn that a lover can receive, and his mistress can bestow nothing which is equal to the rapturous enjoyment of an easy chair.

This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.

The occult student has also to bestow a further care on the world of sound.

Or perhaps his manner was due to his desire to bestow some additional attention upon her.