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indeavour

indeavour is the archaic form of endeavour.

Meaning of endeavour

Verb

endeavour (third-person singular simple present endeavours, present participle endeavouring, simple past and past participle endeavoured)

  1. British standard spelling of endeavor.
    • And such were Prais'd who but endeavour'd well.1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC

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Forms of indeavour

Verb
third-person singular presentindeavours
present participleindeavouring
past participleindeavoured
pastindeavoured
Noun
pluralindeavours

Questions about indeavour

What is indeavour the archaic form of?
Indeavour is the archaic form of endeavour.

Words near indeavour in the dictionary

  1. indeavor
  2. indeavor'd
  3. indeavored
  4. indeavoring
  5. indeavors
  6. indeavour
  7. indeavour'd
  8. indeavoured
  9. indeavoureth
  10. indeavouring
  11. indeavours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indeavour (page history and authors); endeavour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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