indowment
indowment is the archaic form of endowment.
Meaning of endowment
Noun
endowment (countable and uncountable, plural endowments)
- Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
- 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...1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791)
- Synonyms:
- gift
- Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
- 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.1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland
- Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
- A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
Forms of indowment
| plural | indowments |
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Origin of indowment
From indow + -ment.
Questions about indowment
- What is indowment the archaic form of?
- Indowment is the archaic form of endowment.
Words near indowment in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: indowment (page history and authors); endowment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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