All 3 Uses of
endow
in
Bleak House
- So Guster, much impressed by regarding herself for the time as the handmaid of Chadband, whom she knows to be endowed with the gift of holding forth for four hours at a stretch, prepares the little drawing-room for tea.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- I would rather restore to poor Rick his proper nature than be endowed with all the money that dead suitors, broken, heart and soul, upon the wheel of Chancery, have left unclaimed with the Accountant-General—and that's money enough, my dear, to be cast into a pyramid, in memory of Chancery's transcendent wickedness."†
Chpt 34-36
- So strangely did I hold my place in this world that until within a short time back I had never, to my own mother's knowledge, breathed—had been buried—had never been endowed with life—had never borne a name.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(endow) give something of value to -- usually a significant amount of money or something of financial value, but sometimes qualities or abilities too
(often given with the understanding that the gift will be invested forever and only the earnings will be spent)