Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who endows.
- To furnish with a dower or portion; endow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who endows.
- transitive verb obsolete To endow.
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- noun One who
endows .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the Declaration, we acknowledge Him as our Creator, the endower of our rights.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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The founders argued correctly I might add that God is the endower of mans rights and Liberty.
Libertarian Principles, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the Declaration, we acknowledge Him as our Creator, the endower of our rights.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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In the Declaration, we acknowledge Him as our Creator, the endower of our rights.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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In the Declaration, we acknowledge Him as our Creator, the endower of our rights.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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Perhaps one reason might have been that to have almshouses or poorhouses or hospitals or schools named after their endower lent their endower a second kind of immortality, for his name was never aristocratic.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Perhaps one reason might have been that to have almshouses or poorhouses or hospitals or schools named after their endower lent their endower a second kind of immortality, for his name was never aristocratic.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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On the anniversary of the opening of the school, the children frequenting it -- in number nearly 300 -- had been long accustomed to march in procession up to the mansion of the neighbouring squire, the founder and endower of the school.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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The endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of choir member in a collegiate church or cathedral, or of curate in outlying districts, or of chaplain in hospitals and jails, or of schoolmaster or librarian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The chantry was a foundation with endowment, the proceeds of which went to one or more priests carrying the obligation of singing or saying Mass at stated times, or daily, for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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