enow

enow

The poet declares that his love is enow.

Definition

  1. Adjective (archaic, poetic):

    • Sufficient; enough: "enow" is an archaic and poetic variant of "enough," meaning a sufficient quantity or degree.
    • Usage note: Typically found in older English poetry or formal literary contexts.

  2. Adverb (archaic, poetic):

    • To an adequate degree: used to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to indicate sufficiency.
    • Example: He spoke enow for all to hear.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective:

    • There is bread enow for the entire village. (There is a sufficient amount of bread.)
    • We have time enow to finish the task. (We have enough time.)

  • Adverb:

    • She sang well enow to please the crowd. (She sang sufficiently well.)
    • The room is large enow for fifty guests. (The room is large enough.)
Advanced Usage

  • "enow and to spare": an older expression meaning "more than enough."

    • He had wealth enow and to spare. (He had more than sufficient wealth.)

  • In poetic meter: "enow" is often used to fit rhyme or rhythm in verse.

    • From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 1": "That thereby beauty's rose might never die, / But as the riper should by time decease, / His tender heir might bear his memory: / But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, / Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, / Making a famine where abundance lies, / Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: / Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament / And only herald to the gaudy spring, / Within thine own bud buriest thy content / And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding: / Pity the world, or else this glutton be, / To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee." (Here "enow" is not used, but the word appears in other works such as "There are enow of fools in the world.")
Variants and Related Words

  • Enough (adj/adv/n): the standard modern form of "enow."

    • We have enough food. (We have sufficient food.)

  • Enough (n): a sufficient amount.

    • Enough is enough. (The sufficient amount has been reached.)
Synonyms
  • Sufficient: adequate for a purpose.
  • Adequate: enough to meet a need.
  • Plenty: a large or sufficient amount.
Related Idioms
  • "Enow and to spare": (archaic) more than enough.
    • They had provisions enow and to spare for the journey. (They had more than sufficient supplies.)

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