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Endowment

//ɛnˈdaʊmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something with which a person or thing is endowed. countable, uncountable

    "I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments."

  2. 2
    the act of endowing with a permanent source of income wordnet
  3. 3
    Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution. countable, uncountable

    "Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling."

  4. 4
    natural abilities or qualities wordnet
  5. 5
    Endowment assurance or pure endowment. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the capital that provides income for an institution wordnet
  2. 7
    A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife. Mormonism, countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow + -ment.

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