Both Uses
endeavor
in
The Declaration of Independence
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- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.†
endeavoured = tried or attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavored.
- ...and has endeavoured to bring...
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Definitions:
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(1)
(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)