[f. ENDEAVOUR v. + -ING2.] That endeavors. Also transf. and fig.

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1628.  Milton, Poems, Vacat. Exerc., 2. Hail, native language! that … Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak.

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1656.  trans. Hobbes Elem. Philos. (1839), 334. The parts, which are pressed by both the endeavouring bodies.

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1850.  T. T. Lynch, Theoph. Trinal, ii. 20. His net of endeavouring thought.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., II. xxiii. 107. The hard, climbing path of an endeavouring artist.

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