endeavouringn.
/ɛnˈdɛvərɪŋ/ The action of endeavour v.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun]
intenta1340
endeavourc1400
pursuita1425
attemptation1425
endeavourment1523
endeavouring1548
conation1615
attentation1663
conativea1688
essayal1837
telesis1896
1548 R. Hutten tr. J. Spangenberg Sum of Diuinitie sig. Lij Good intencions or endeuoringes of reason.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vi. 35 An indeuoring to renounce the worlde and all his owne affections.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 2 The unhappy endeavouring of Forraign Aid.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 166 No dining at Freemasons' Tavern..and infinite other jangling and true or false endeavouring!
1877 Mem. Bp. of Argyll iii. 32 In addition to his other endeavourings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
endeavouringadj.
That endeavours. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > [adjective]
trying1577
endeavourousa1631
attemptinga1640
endeavouring1656
essaying1726
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xxii. 248 The parts which are pressed by both the endeavouring Bodies.
1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 64 Hail native Language, that..Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ii. 20 His net of endeavouring thought.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxiii. 107 The hard, climbing path of an endeavouring artist.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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