endow
verb (used with object)
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income.
was endowing
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past progressiveof endow.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I would appoint him doctor to the estate and also give him charge of a cottage hospital which I was endowing, with liberty to build and arrange it as he liked.
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Henry Rider Haggard
As he spoke he turned his head and looked at his vis-à-vis with a glance which seemed to imply that he was endowing her with an empire.
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
Already, by the saintly grace of a mother's heart, she was endowing her offspring with all the virtues.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick
