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endue

UK/ɪnˈdjuː/US/ɪnˈd(j)u/
verbC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: endued

To endue is to provide somebody with a quality or a power. Endued with courage, endue them with strength, endued with reason.

It is archaic and biblical and appears almost only as endued with. It is close in sense to endow, and the two have influenced each other so long that the difference is barely worth drawing.

Definitions of endue

  1. 1verbendueTo provide somebody with a quality or a power.C2

    “The old legend says the spring could endue anyone who drank from it with great wisdom.”

endue is a giving.

Where it comes from

From Old French enduire and Latin inducere, to lead in, with influence from endow.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *dewk-

  2. English, today

    endue

From both of the following:

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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