efforting

Verb

effort (third-person singular simple present efforts, present participle efforting, simple past and past participle efforted)

1. (intransitive, uncommon) To make an effort.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate
   • When old, he lived in London where, being High-minded and Poor, he was exposed to the contempt of disingenuous persons. Yet he efforted his Spirits with a Commemoration of the Days of Old.1684, Thomas Fuller, G. S., Anglorum Speculum: Or The Worthies of England, in Church and State

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