All 3 Uses
endow
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- Perhaps it is a word which she believes to be endowed with some magic and secret virtue.†
Chpt 2.7.2 *
- Here Phoebus, whose imagination was endowed with but mediocre power of creation, began to find himself in a quandary as to a means of extricating himself for his prowess.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- It was more than a chain, more than a fetter, more than a ring of iron, it was a living pair of pincers endowed with intelligence, which emerged from the wall.†
Chpt 2.11.1
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)