unattempting

English

Etymology

un- + attempting

Adjective

unattempting (not comparable)

  1. Not making an attempt.
    • quoted in 2015, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939
      Garvin added: 'Mind you true tragedy, supreme tragedy are not the worst in life, far from it: the squalid morass of unattempting impotence is the stifling of the soul and hope of man. []
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