All 4 Uses
endow
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Atlas Shrugged
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- But a week later they announced, with an inordinate amount of publicity, that they were endowing the construction of a playground for the children of the unemployed.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.†
Chpt 3.7
- A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost, a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.†
Chpt 3.7
- He believes that physical objects are endowed with a mysterious volition, moved by causeless, unpredictable whims, while he is a helpless pawn at the mercy of forces beyond his control.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(endow) give or provide with (something of value)In reference to a financial gift, endow typically refers to a large gift given with the understanding that the gift will be invested forever and only the earnings will be spent.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)