Endow vs Endower - What's the difference?
endow | endower |
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
To bestow freely.
To be furnished with something naturally.
As verbs the difference between endow and endower
is that endow is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution while endower is to endow.As a noun endower is
one who endows.endow
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Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.
