Meaning & use
Endue
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To provide or invest someone with a particular quality, power, or gift; to endow.
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The ceremony was meant to endue the young knight with courage and honor.
Tradition held that the ritual would endue the newborn with good fortune.
A note on using this word
Endue and 'endow' both trace back to Latin roots meaning 'to put on' or 'to give,' and older English texts, including some Bible translations, use 'endue' where modern writing would say 'endow.'
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