Sentence:  It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had <WSD>given</WSD> him as a rule - beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied - and it was duty he would perform , though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense