unendowed

comparative more unendowed · superlative most unendowed

1. Not endowed.

   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.

   1889, George (George Augustus) Moore, Mike Fletcher

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   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.

   1688, E. Farr, E. H. Nolan, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.

   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.

   1917, Winston Churchill, The Dwelling-Place of Light, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company

2. Lacking an endowment.

   By degrees the libraries which were unendowed fell behind the age, and were consequently neglected.

   1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 36