Unendowed

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Not endowed..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not endowed.
2. Lacking an endowment.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

By degrees the libraries which were unendowed fell behind the age, and were consequently neglected.

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• more unendowed
• most unendowed

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