[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of making an effort, trying; attempt, endeavor.
1556. Phaër, Æneid, IV. L iij. Quaking … her huge attemptings to pursue.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. Wks. (1851), 145. Though of highest hope, and hardest attempting.
1784. Anderson, in Phil. Trans., LXXV. 21. The attempting to climb it was at the risk of my life.
