unattempting
English
Etymology
un- + attempting
Adjective
unattempting (not comparable)
- 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. […]
- quoted in 2015, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939
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