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enˈdeavourer
[f. endeavour v. + -er.]
†a. One who endeavours; an aspirant. Obs.
1586W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 15 Your worshyppe cannot chuse, but continue your wonted fauourable benignitie towardes all the indeuourers to learning. 1645J. Lilburne in Prynne Fresh Disc. Blazing Stars 34 An endeavourer to set the Princes of the earth together by the ears. 1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 83 'Tis crowded..with the most burdensome sort of Guests, the Endeavourers to be witty. 1709Steele Tatler No. 167 ⁋1 Labour and Industry will but push the unhappy Endeavourer..the further off his Wishes.
b. In full, Christian Endeavourer: a member of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour, a religious association which originated in the United States in 1881.
1893Rep. Third Nat. Christian Endeavour Convention 41 Wherever she went she met as many of the Endeavourers as she could, and all gave her one promise..‘We mean to try and do all we can for Jesus’. 1896Harper's Weekly 22 Aug. 822/2, I found restless Endeavorers still going into and coming out of their state-rooms. 1897Helping Words Nov. 247 ‘There are some directions in the Bible that you can't follow.’.. ‘That is a remarkable admission for an Endeavourer to make.’ 1900H. Lawson On Track 136 At one end of the table a Christian Endeavourer endeavouring. |