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A fancy word for trying, worn by people who want failure to sound noble.
means To make a serious, sustained effort toward something difficult, with real intention behind it.
from Built from the old phrase 'put oneself in devoir' — devoir being French for 'duty,' itself from Latin debere, 'to owe.' So to endeavour is literally to put yourself in debt to a task, to owe it your effort until it's done.
- etymology
- From old french, literally to put yourself in duty
- spelling tell
- British u gives away who wrote it
- nasa reuse
- Shuttle Endeavour named after Cook's ship, not ambition