unendowed
English
Etymology
From un- + endowed.
Adjective
unendowed (comparative more unendowed, superlative most unendowed)
- Not endowed
- 1688, E. Farr and E. H. Nolan, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.:
- Those parish ministers who had seceded were about two hundred and forty, or one-fourth of the whole number; the unendowed ministers, about two hundred, or about one-third of the entire clergy of Scotland.
- 1889, George (George Augustus) Moore, Mike Fletcher:
- For Cooper was unendowed with worldly shrewdness, and, like all dreamers, was attracted by a mind which controlled while he might only attempt to understand.
- 1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete:
- 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.
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