unendowed
English
Adjective
unendowed (comparative more unendowed, superlative most unendowed)
- Not endowed.
- 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.
- 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.
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