2. Verb. (third-person singular of attempt) ¹
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Definition of Attempts
1. attempt [v] - See also: attempt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attempts
Literary usage of Attempts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"Thus spectacular attempts are made for the purpose of gaining sympathy or ...
In other cases attempts are made from pique or spite, simply a carrying into ..."
2. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... and afterwards to exclude him from the Conferences, but fails in both attempts,
and returns home—Nicole Mignon attempts to poison the King—A public ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"The following Paper was read :— On Discoveries east of Spitzbergen, and attempts
to reach tlie Pole on the » Spitzbergen Meridians. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ..."
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