单词 | endeavourer |
释义 | endeavourern.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > one who endeavours or attempts assayera1398 enterpriser1490 offerer1581 endeavourer1586 attempter1598 essayer1611 essayist1736 trier1891 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii v Your worshyppe cannot chuse, but continue your wonted fauourable benignitie towardes all the indeuourers to learning. 1645 J. Lilburne in W. Prynne Fresh Discov. Stars ix. 34 An endeavourer to set the Princes of the earth together by the ears. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 83 'Tis crowded..with the most burdensome sort of Guests, the Endeavourers to be witty. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 167. ⁋1 Labour and Industry will but push the unhappy Endeavourer..the further off his Wishes. b. In full, Christian Endeavourer: a member of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour, a religious association which originated in the United States in 1881. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > endeavourer > [noun] Christian Endeavourer1893 1893 Rep. Third Nat. Christian Endeavour Convention 41 Wherever she went she met as many of the Endeavourers as she could, and all gave her one promise..‘We mean to try and do all we can for Jesus’. 1896 Harper's Weekly 22 Aug. 822/2 I found restless Endeavorers still going into and coming out of their state-rooms. 1897 Helping Words Nov. 247 ‘There are some directions in the Bible that you can't follow.’.. ‘That is a remarkable admission for an Endeavourer to make.’ 1900 H. Lawson On Track 136 At one end of the table a Christian Endeavourer endeavouring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1586 |
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