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Lend

verb

(past & past part. lent; pres. part. lending)

Bestow a quality on. Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart. "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time. Synonym: loan. "Loan me some money"

Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to. "The current system lends itself to great abuse"

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"Lend" Quotes from Famous Books

... and lend a hand in the press of the season? Well, I don't. Not for twenty year. There's them as calls it folly, but the smell of the hay brings it all back and turns me sick. You say you can't believe such a fine woman as me would be subject to fancies; you think I ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

... to lend the orgy an atmosphere of gallantry, raised once more his glass and pronounced: "To our ...

— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... glee, and the wind blew a blast, and a fish was upward cast. Then hastened the guide to ope the fish's side, took the liver and the gall, for cure of evil's thrall: liver to give demons flight, gall to restore men's sight. The youth begged his friend these specifics to lend, then went he on his way to where his sick sire lay. Then spake the youth to his father all the truth. "Send not away the guide without pay." The son sought the man, through the city he ran, but the man had disappeared. ...

— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams

... the story of the fabrication of Eve to be regarded as one of those pre-Abrahamic narratives, the historical truth of which is an open question, in face of the reference to it in a speech unhappily famous for the legal oppression to which it has been wrongfully forced to lend itself? ...

— The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science - Essay #6 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley

... this life. Her descent and her estate were beyond question. Her wayfaring ancestors and her litigious father had done well by Jean. There was ready money and there were broad acres, ready to fall wholly to the husband, to lend dignity to his descendants, and to himself a title, when he should be called upon the Bench. On the side of Jean, there was perhaps some fascination of curiosity as to this unknown male animal that approached her with the roughness of a ploughman and the ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

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