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Example sentences for "endowing"

Lexicographically close words:
endothelial; endothelium; endotracheal; endow; endowed; endowment; endowments; endows; endroit; endroits
  1. The view of its exertion at the beginning of time, endowing matter and created things with forces which do the work and produce the phenomena.

  2. When, otherwise, they might have led the true and only way of Progress by endowing the Race with living presentments and evolving treasuries of the parental ideals and endowments.

  3. Their numbers were falling off, their zeal was gone; there is little good to be said of them save that they were still in some cases endowing England with splendid architectural decorations.

  4. He persevered, however, in the task which he had set himself, and introduced a measure endowing Ireland with a parliament, and excluding the Irish members from Westminster.

  5. The Effect of Endowing Children with Education and with Property.

  6. There will be a weaker and weaker influence against these forces which fructify labor and they will go on indefinitely, endowing working humanity with more and more productive power and with greater accumulations of positive wealth.

  7. Far from endowing this test with so great an authority in this case, I should regard it not only as perceptibly of very small validity, but, as I have said, invalid to a degree which we have no means of ascertaining.

  8. I think she means to propose endowing an English department library fund.

  9. Two or three of Miss Ferris's admirers declared that zoölogy was the most important subject in the college curriculum, and urged that the money should be used as a nest egg for endowing the chair occupied by that popular lady.

  10. These aided in endowing Judaism with a power of conviction which rendered futile the conversionist efforts of the Church, with its arguments and its threats.

  11. In this the deity made man by mixing earth with some of its own life-blood, thus endowing the human soul with higher powers.

  12. God is described as forming the body of man from the dust of the earth and then breathing His spirit into the lifeless frame, endowing it with both life and personality.

  13. Dunbrody was built by the ruthless conqueror, Hervey de Montmorenci, who sought to expiate his cruelties by becoming its abbot and endowing it with all his property.

  14. It has been taught in German universities, and it will be taught in ours whenever we shall succeed in inducing your friends, by one means or another, not to continue endowing them.

  15. They have tended to give a new meaning to popular government by endowing it with larger powers, more positive responsibilities, and a better faith in human excellence.

  16. But Providence, whilst endowing men with genius, has neglected to make them less foolish and less wicked.

  17. He had carefully studied the map of the world, and his observations resulted in the unheard-of project of endowing his little kingdom with immense colonial possessions.

  18. This was the water of life, belonging to Ishtar, and endowing her with the power to return to earth.

  19. The savage may conceive a deity without endowing it with any characteristics.

  20. Thus far of an endowing or modifying power: but the Imagination also shapes and creates; and how?

  21. If it be, I cannot listen to the argument in favour of endowing Romanism upon the ground of superiority of numbers.

  22. It is the function of endowing signs with the memory of their constitution in practical experiences.

  23. Drawing was an interpreted representation, not only in the sense of selection-what to draw-but also in defining a perspective and endowing the image with some emotional quality.

  24. Personal characteristics, making the oral expressive, and social characteristics, endowing the written with the hints that bring it close to speech, are supported in the phonetic system.

  25. Within a year or two Robert Fitz Aer[105] founded another chapel at Aston Aer, endowing it with sixty acres and a house and all tithes of the domain.

  26. His effort was successful, and he secured for his tribe (the Iroquois) a charter endowing them with the privileges and emoluments in perpetuity.

  27. As we shall see hereafter, the manors are often far too small to allow of our endowing each of them with a court.

  28. For a very long time it is used mainly, if not solely, as a means of endowing the churches with lands and superiorities.

  29. Then the Anglo-Saxon charters show us how the kings have been endowing their thegns with tracts of territory which are deemed to contain just five or some multiple of five hides[654].

  30. I came to Deptford from Wotton, in order to the first meeting of the Commissioners for endowing an hospital for seamen at Greenwich; it was at the Guildhall, London.

  31. I protest I could have knelt before her too, and adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storge, which began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind.

  32. A great hope pours its energy into the will, endowing it with the strength of marvellous patience and perseverance.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.