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endeavour

endeavour (third-person singular simple present endeavours, present participle endeavouring, simple past and past participle endeavoured)

1. (obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
2. (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]
   • 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.

3. (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something). [16th-17th c.]
   • 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 credits neer the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrel.

endeavour (plural endeavours)

1. A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.
   • 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.

   • 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.

2. Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.
   • 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 […] .

Definizione dizionario endeavour

	sforzarsi
	to attempt through application of effort

	sforzo
	sincere attempt

	tentativo
	sincere attempt

	adoperarsi
	to attempt through application of effort

	impegno
	sincere attempt

	impresa
	enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity

	tentare
	to attempt through application of effort

affliggere

cercare

dolore

fatica

punizione

tentare di

Altri significati:

Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity.

A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal.

(obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something). [16th-17th c.]

To exert oneself to do or effect something.

(intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]

An assiduous or persistent activity.

(obsolete, reflexive) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]