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▪ I. endeavouring, vbl. n.|ɛnˈdɛvərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. endeavour.
1548R. Hutten Sum of Diuinitie L 2 a, Good intencions or endeuoringes of reason. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. vi. 35 An indeuoring to renounce the worlde and all his owne affections. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Warres 2 The unhappy endeavouring of Forraign Aid. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 261 No dining at Freemason's Tavern..and infinite other jangling and true or false endeavouring. 1877Mem. Bp. of Argyll iii. 32 In addition to his other endeavourings.
▪ II. enˈdeavouring ppl. a.
[f. endeavour v. + -ing2.]
That endeavours. Also transf. and fig.
1628Milton Poems, Vacat. Exerc. 2 Hail, native language! that..Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak. 1656tr. Hobbes Elem. Philos. (1839) 334 The parts, which are pressed by both the endeavouring bodies. 1850Lynch Theop. Trin. ii. 20 His net of endeavouring thought. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. II. xxiii. 107 The hard, climbing path of an endeavouring artist. |