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endowed

How to use endowed in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for endowed.

Editorial note

It seems that the notion of rights endowed by the creator should apply broadly to all humans whenever possible.

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Quick take

provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of endowed gathered in one view.

adjective

provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for endowed.

adjective

provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

Example sentences

1

It seems that the notion of rights endowed by the creator should apply broadly to all humans whenever possible.

2

A few years later I ran across an endowed chair at Stanford in the name of the chief crook and funded by Cisco. There was additional dirt beneath the surface of these transactions but that story will have to wait till later."

3

It means I'm lucky enough to be driven far beyond most, and endowed with a greater amount of ability, and thus a rare and valuable member of the team.

4

Has your culture gotten over most chippendales being male, well-endowed and fit? There are people who enjoy sexuality and sensuality, I personally don't care that there are a segment of women who enjoy chippendales it doesn't threaten me as a man.

5

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." I'm not quoting that at you to be self-righteous.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Ok, so now for some people, its gonna cost $100K, to make it evident.

7

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights&;&." Chinese, American, British, Pakistani, Russian, French, it doesn't matter.

8

Each participant was endowed with 10 game chips and had to decide how to allocate them. Each chip that was kept paid $2 to the individual; each chip that was contributed to the group pool added $1 to each in- group member including the contributor; in addition, it subtracted $1 from each out-group member.

9

-- [1] You know how the Declaration of Independence says we're all endowed with "inalienable" rights? That's inalienable as in the opposite of the "alienable" rights I discussed above.

10

Being a woman in business, especially in the tech industry, is hard but gets easier as you grow older: you get isolated, pointed out, 'discussed' and I've had clients marvel at my technical prowess, as if it were some magical gift endowed to but a few women. It took me years to learn to cope, and to have the confidence to say, it's not about me.

11

A hint as to why their voices go unheard: the billionaire founders of Google and Facebook, and their stock-option-endowed highly-paid subordinates, are not exactly under-privileged. And neither are the entrepreneurial politicians who shape internet law.

12

You'll note that in our declaration of independence, it states that the rights to life and liberty are the inalienable birthright of every man, endowed by his creator, before it says fuck-all about anyone's government.

13

The distinction is difficult to make anyway, but the declaration of independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights&;&." and does not make a distinction - I don't think we should be able to spy on someone in another country without a warrant any more than we can spy on citizen.

14

The Declaration of Independence states that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Gendered language aside, the idea of the founders was clearly that rights derive from one's innate humanity, and do not derive from government largess.

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So much for the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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" There is a certain category of foolthe overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved." " Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner."

17

They will not come with the heritage billions of years of biological evolution, with many of the past several million being spent in increasingly cooperative scenarios which has endowed us with social behaviors so deeply ingrained in our very genes we can hardly conceive of a being not having them. Even our pathological humans like Lecter are still far, far more human than a random AI will be.

18

When you launch any application—be it a $5000 version of AutoCAD fresh from the box or the Elf Bowling game downloaded from an unknown site on the Web—that application is immediately and automatically endowed with all the authority you yourself hold. Such applications can plant Trojans as part of your startup profile, read all your email, transmit themselves to everyone in your address book using your name, and can connect via TCP/IP to their remote masters for further instruction.

19

It would, perhaps, be enlightening to quote the entire sentence from the US Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

20

You probably are familiar with some of it even if you aren't an American simply by virtue of being an English-speaker: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use endowed in a sentence?

It seems that the notion of rights endowed by the creator should apply broadly to all humans whenever possible.

What does endowed mean?

provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

What part of speech is endowed?

endowed is commonly used as adjective.