endeavor

plural endeavors · alternative endeavour

1. USA sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.

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   My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

   1944 June 6, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Prayer on D-Day”, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2016

   Synonyms: pursuit, undertaking, activity, doings, enterprise, pursuance, pursuit, undertaking

present singular third person endeavors · participle present endeavoring · participle past endeavored · past endeavored · alternative endeavour

1. USobsoleteTo exert oneself.First known use 15th–17th c.
2. USintransitiveTo attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.First known use 16th c.

   She was endeavoring to teach us the elements of a good prose style.

3. USobsoletetransitiveTo attempt (something).First known use 16th–17th c.
4. USTo work with purpose.

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   He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

   2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162