Questão 3172239

Read the following excerpt from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew:

“Baptista:

Gentlemen, importune me no farther,

For how I firmly am resolu'd you know:

That is, not to bestow my yongest daughter,

Before I haue a husband for the elder:

If either of you both loue Katherina,

Because I know you well, and loue you well,

Leaue shall you haue to court her at your pleasure.”

Source: https://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/download/text-pdfs/F-shr.pdf

In this context, the word “bestow” is closest in meaning to: