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  • It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!  (source)
    endowed = equipped
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.  (source)
    endowed = given
  • The new injury endowed the big oaf with a disconcerting lisp.†  (source)
    endowed = gave
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  • Ahwaz, in southern Iran, is a town generously endowed with dirt and dust.†  (source)
    endowed = gave
  • Some ran desperately from the favor of a regime that wanted to endow them with the honor of displaying them side by side with its new leaders.†  (source)
    endow = give
  • Then he saw her his sister, no shadow; her arms reached up the trembling car hood, the rough motor endowing her fine fingers, her knobby wrists, with strangely nervous life.†  (source)
    endowing = giving
  • So it is that in battle naught might I with Hrunting One whit do the work, though the weapon be doughty; 1660 But to me then he granted, the Wielder of men, That on wall I beheld there all beauteous hanging An ancient sword, might-endow'd (often he leadeth right The friendless of men); so forth drew I that weapon.†  (source)
  • In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber with a mind of its own, a means of knowing and commenting on its own behavior.†  (source)
    endows = gives
  • In 1939, Les Amis Des Vieux Maitres occupied the second floor of a small, highly unendowed-looking, three-story building—a tenement building, really—in the Verdun, or least attractive, section of Montreal.†  (source)
    unendowed = not given
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendowed means not and reverses the meaning of endowed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Since they suffered through no fault of their own, since they were unlucky and underendowed, they should deserve a compensation of some sort—more like a reward.†  (source)
  • We have endowed a proton with wisdom.†  (source)
    endowed = gave
  • I give all my estate, house, land, goods, and chattels, moveable and unmoveable, quick and dead, that it has pleased God to endow me with, to my son Seth, my daughter Charity, and to Brand Rigney, formerly servant of Bradford Hall, whom I do assign as my heir equally with mine own natural children in the hope that he will dwell with them as a brother and be guardian over them.†  (source)
    endow = give
  • Little by little he idealized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing else but her.†  (source)
    endowing = giving
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