Endow vs Pecuniary - What's the difference?
endow | pecuniary |
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.
Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
*1858 , (Anthony Trollope), (Doctor Thorne) , Chapter IV:
*:Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
*:The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
As a verb 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.As an adjective pecuniary is
of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.endow
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Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.