Definition of "dowering" [dowering]

• Present participle of dower. (verb)

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• "It was a good thing that he had a ready source of income from his wool and mutton; he'd need it, dowering six daughters."
• "He was married, she learned — to one Cuspia, daughter of a publicanus, and his sister was married to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the younger brother of the Pontifex Maximus; dowering his sister had been a staggering expense, one he had only managed to achieve by marrying his Cuspia, whose father was enormously wealthy."
• "Popes against all their enemies, imperial and barbarian, and dowering them with cities and provinces, laid the basis of their temporal sovereignty, which continued for more than a thousand years (until 1870)."