All 5 Uses of
endowment
in
The Scarlet Letter
- As he possessed no higher attribute, and neither sacrificed nor vitiated any spiritual endowment by devoting all his energies and ingenuities to subserve the delight and profit of his maw, it always pleased and satisfied me to hear him expatiate on fish, poultry, and butcher's meat, and the most eligible methods of preparing them for the table.
Chpt Intr.endowment = gift (natural ability)
- …integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore;
Chpt Intr.endowments = gifts (nature-given qualities)
- Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher.
Chpt 20endowment = natural abilities or accomplishments
- In that old day the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence was strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age—on long-tried integrity—on solid wisdom and sad-coloured experience—on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gave the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability.
Chpt 22endowments = accomplishments or natural gifts
- This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment, insomuch that a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.
Chpt 22 *endowment = gift (or natural ability)
Definition:
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(endowment) the invested money that provides income for an institution; or an instance of giving such money
or:
abilities or qualities -- especially those that are nature-given