Meaning of Endeavour | Babel Free

Definitions

British standard spelling of endeavor.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The like⟳ has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians […].”

“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⟳.”

“Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work⟳ proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the publishers to obtain⟳ accurate and complete⟳ information has exceeded anything that would have⟳ been possible twelve months earlier.”

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