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Definition of Empowered
1. Adjective. Invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter.
Definition of Empowered
1. Adjective. (American English) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation. ¹
2. Adjective. (American English) Acting with confidence. ¹
3. Verb. (past of empower) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Empowered
1. empower [v] - See also: empower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empowered
Literary usage of Empowered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... the state of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same,
that the Governor of the state is hereby authorized and fully empowered to ..."
2. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"Upon this the Athenians at once decreed that the 26. generals should be empowered
to act as they thought Prepara- best in the interest of the state ..."
3. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"1591, being then cupbearer to the queen, he was empowered to license all merchants
to purchase and export tin, they paying him fourpence on every ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"... but at last he empowered Matthias to settle matters in Hungary and Transylvania,
and to make peace with the Turks (May — October, 1605). ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... notwithstanding continued pressure from Matthias, persisted in his refusal to
accept a successor ; but at last he empowered Matthias to settle matters ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"11; 1. л! , с. 51); and Dion expressly says, that this was done according to
ancient usage. He was empowered by a decree of the senate ..."
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