The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empower \Em*pow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Empowering.]
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. ``These eyes . . . empowered to gaze.''
--Keble.to enable or permit; to give more opportunity for independent action.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of empower English)
Usage examples of "empowering".
A resolution was then proposed, and carried without a dissentient voice, empowering the directors to agree with those of the South Sea to circulate their bonds, to what sum, and upon what terms, and for what time, they might think proper.
This malevolent Other was simply assumed to be Generic Male, and Oppression Studies 101 was set in motion, with the bizarre goal of empowering women by first defining them as powerless.
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You can then bathe your crystal in empowering moonlight and leave to dry.
I find the Moon method more gently empowering for crystals that are primarily intended to act as guardians.
Petition of Thomas Boyd, and several hundred merchants, owners and masters of ships, sailmakers, weavers, and other traders, praying a charter of incorporation, empowering them to borrow money for purchasing lands, in order to the manufacturing sail-cloth and fine Holland.
Petition of Captain Macphedris, of London, merchant, on behalf of himself and several merchants, clothiers, hatters, dyers, and other traders, praying a charter of incorporation, empowering them to raise a sufficient sum of money to purchase lands for planting and rearing a wood called madder, for the use of dyers.
Maybe that connection is what's empowering other women…at least when I touch them.
I would need a collection of them before I could risk revealing them to the world and allowing them to work their empowering magic on womankind.
Surely the senile, bearded old back issue sitting opposite him could not object to such a vigorous and empowering piece of film‑making.
I must confess, I never realized I was doing such a fine and empowering thing.
While any positive group activity is empowering, speaking or listening in a loving and supportive group can be personally healing.
Then the tribunes began to throw out hints about one consul being elected from the plebs, and matters advanced so far that nine tribunes brought in a measure empowering the people to elect consuls from the plebeians or the patricians as they chose.
Claudius was in favour of empowering the consuls to use armed force against the tribunes.
At the beginning of their year of office, a resolution was adopted by the senate empowering the tribunes to bring before the plebs at the earliest possible date the subject of an inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Postumius, and allowing the plebs to choose whom they would to preside over the inquiry.