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Definition of Endowments
1. endowment [n] - See also: endowment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endowments
Literary usage of Endowments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1895)
"What is the value of these Church endowments to the people of England, and to
the great ... If I did not believe that the retention of these endowments ..."
2. American Charities; a Study in Philanthropy and Economics by Amos Griswold Warner (1908)
"endowments. WHEN those who support a charity find it difficult to raise the funds
they need, and are weary with unsuccessful applications for contributions; ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"endowments. BY CHARLES NEATE, MA ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. ... The purposes for
which alone endowments can be accepted and allowed are such as the State does ..."
4. The Science of Law by Sheldon Amos (1896)
"Secondly, another difficulty is experienced in regulating endowments by law on the
... In the case of the innumerable endowments which "the superstition or ..."
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