Endeavour

Alternative forms

 * endeavor (US)

Etymology
endeveren:, corresponding to ; compare undefined:.

Verb

 * 1)  To exert oneself.
 * 2)  To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
 * 3) * 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 2:
 * The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavour to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners.
 * 1)  To attempt (something).
 * 2) * 1669, Sir Isaac Newton, Letter (to Francis Aston), 18 May 1669:
 * If you be affronted, it is better, in a foreign country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for, in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.

Synonyms

 * strive

Translations

 * American Sign Language:
 * Dutch: zich, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, s'
 * Hindi: प्रयास करना


 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пытаться, прилагать усилия, стараться
 * Simplified Chinese:
 * Spanish: esfuerzo

Noun

 * 1) A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
 * 2) * 1640, Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Part II, Chapter 28,
 * And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour, the good of the people.
 * 1) * 1873, J C Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Volume 2, page 184:
 * As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view.
 * 1) Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
 * 2) * 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press, 1973, § 9:
 * The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians.

Translations

 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian:, ջանք
 * Catalan: esforç
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, ponnistus, pyrkimys
 * French:
 * Hungarian: igyekezet


 * Italian:, ,
 * Polish: dążenie,, usiłowanie
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: tentativă
 * Russian: попытка, старание, стремление
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Simplified Chinese:
 * Spanish:, esfuerzo


 * Arabic: غاية..محاولة
 * Catalan: esforç
 * Dutch: inspanning(en), moeite, streven
 * Finnish:, pyrkimys
 * French:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: esfuerzo


 * : Bemühung, Bestrebung,
 * : מאמץ
 * :, empenho
 * : bemödande, prestation
 * : bemödande, prestation
 * : bemödande, prestation

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