endow
verb (used with object)
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income.
endower
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a word derived from
endow.
Example Sentences
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Thus spoke the considerable personage, the millionaire endower of churches on a scale befitting the greatness of his native land—the same to whom the doctors used the language of horrid and veiled menaces.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
The Schola Cantorum looked upon Gregory I. as its founder and endower.
From St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music by E. G. P. Wyatt
It wouldn't be right to ask 'em each for a dime, like Hope's letter did, to endower a hospital bed, 'cause I haven't got the bed, and anyway I don't need money.
From Heart of Gold by Ruth Alberta Brown
When at the first those tidings did they bring, My heart turned troubled at the ominous thing: Though well may such a title him endower, For whom a poet's prayer implores a poet's power.
From Poems by Francis Thompson
On the contrary, it especially demands a divine creative force as the starter of its processes and the endower of the atoms with their peculiar properties.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
