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indevour

indevour is the obsolete spelling 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 indevour

third-person singular presentindevours
present participleindevouring
past participleindevoured
pastindevoured

Questions about indevour

What is indevour the obsolete spelling of?
Indevour is the obsolete spelling of endeavour.

Words near indevour in the dictionary

  1. indeterminists
  2. indevirginate
  3. indevote
  4. indevotion
  5. indevotional
  6. indevour
  7. indevoured
  8. indevouring
  9. indevours
  10. indevout
  11. indevoutly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indevour (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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