Empowered vs Embowered - What's the difference?

empowered | embowered |

As verbs the difference between empowered and embowered

is that empowered is (empower) while embowered is (embower).

As an adjective empowered

is (us) having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.

empowered

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.

(US) Acting with confidence.

Verb

(head)

(empower)

embowered

English

Verb

(head)

(embower)

embower

English

Alternative forms

* imbower

Verb

(en verb)

(poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d

* 1809 , , A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker

A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.

* 1852 ,

And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

* 1884 , , Bound Together

The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn

*1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

*:A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

* 1591 , , Virgil’s Gnat , line 225

But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

To form a bower.

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