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endeavour
/ɪnˈdɛv.ɚ/
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What does endeavour mean?
noun
- British standard spelling of endeavor.
verb
- British standard spelling of endeavor.
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Become a mere agency for the supply of information, the press has renounced all endeavour to enforce an idea or a doctrine.
The position is simply that there is, broadly speaking, the endeavour to eliminate an element which is essential to successful dramatic presentation.
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His life has been a gallant endeavour to win further knowledge, though too much at the expense of a constitution originally delicate.
I made a heroic endeavour To look unconcerned, but in vain, And I vow'd that I never—oh never Would ask anybody again!
He relinquished the endeavour, folded his arms, and stood quiet and mute in the rain, now falling fast on his uncovered head.