Both Uses of
empower
in
The Giver
- Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness — and promised answers — he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
p. 71.7 *empowered = given authority or power
- I am empowered to lie.
p. 153.5
Definition:
give or delegate authority or power to
or:
give knowledge or confidence to someone that permits doing something
or:
give knowledge or confidence to someone that permits doing something