different between perseverance vs endeavor
perseverance
English
Alternative forms
- perseveraunce (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??s??v????ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?s??v???ns/
- Rhymes: -????ns
- Hyphenation: per?se?ve?rance
Noun
perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)
- Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Related terms
- persevere
- perseverance of the saints
- perseverant
Translations
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French perseverance
Noun
perseverance f (uncountable)
- perseverance
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endeavor
English
Alternative forms
- endeavour (UK)
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n?d?v.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?d?v.?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Noun
endeavor (plural endeavors) (American spelling)
- A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
Translations
Verb
endeavor (third-person singular simple present endeavors, present participle endeavoring, simple past and past participle endeavored) (American spelling)
- (obsolete) To exert oneself. [15th-17th c.]
- (intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something). [16th-17th c.]
- To work with purpose.
Synonyms
- strive
Translations
Anagrams
- do a never
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