unendowed

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ endowed.

Adjective

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unendowed (comparative more unendowed, superlative most unendowed)

  1. Not endowed.
    • 1688, E. Farr, E. H. Nolan, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.[1]:
      Those parish ministers who had seceded were about two hundred and forty, or one-fourth of the whole number; the unendowed ministers, about two hundred, or about one-third of the entire clergy of Scotland.
    • 1889, George (George Augustus) Moore, Mike Fletcher[2]:
      For Cooper was unendowed with worldly shrewdness, and, like all dreamers, was attracted by a mind which controlled while he might only attempt to understand.
    • 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company:
      She was not at all sure whether she believed in an after life,--a lack of faith that had, of late, sorely troubled her friend Eda Rawle, who had “got religion” from an itinerant evangelist and was now working off, in a “live” church, some of the emotional idealism which is the result of a balked sex instinct in young unmarried women of a certain mentality and unendowed with good looks.
  2. Lacking an endowment.
    • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 36:
      By degrees the libraries which were unendowed fell behind the age, and were consequently neglected.