Endeavour vs Avocation - What's the difference?
endeavour | avocation | Related terms |
(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Endeavour is a related term of avocation.
As nouns the difference between endeavour and avocation
is that endeavour is while avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion.As a verb endeavour
is .avocation
English
(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.