Careful Words

enterprise (n.)

enterprise (adj.)

  The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 331.

This sickness doth infect

The very life-blood of our enterprise.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.