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▪ I. striving, vbl. n.|ˈstraɪvɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb strive; an instance of this.
c1205Lay. 15561 Vmben ane stunde heo bigunnen striuinge. c1290St. James 284 in S. Eng. Leg. 42 Bi-twene þe fader and þe sone þe striuingue laste longue. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 250 Batailis and stryvyngis in plee shulden be forsaken of Cristene men. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 83 And forþi realgre is called of som men rede auripigment: of þe namez is no stryuyng so þat we vnderstond þe þingz. 1535Coverdale Ps. xvii[i]. 43 Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people. 1615Chapman Odyss. iv. 558 Hold him there, In spite of all his striuings to be gone. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 13 When ever they give Notice they will take up a Sum of Moneys, there is great striving who can get in his first. 1718Rowe Lucan vii. 513 The great deciding Hour at length is come, To end the Strivings of distracted Rome. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. 211 The fervid striving of the games. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 4 My ideas and higher strivings.
▪ II. ˈstriving, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That strives (in senses of the verb).
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 311 Þy stryuande stremez of stryndez so mony. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. (1868) 59 Somtyme þere was a man þat hadde assaied wiþ striuyng wordes an oþer man. 1530Palsgr. 326/1 Stryvyng, full of stryfe or debate, contentieux. a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (facs.) G iij b, Against the wind and striuinge streame I sayle. 1646Mayne Serm. Unity 20 Who..might have askt the same question which the striving Israelite askt Moses, Who made thee a Judge over us? 1697Dryden æneis i. 637 The striving Artists, and their Arts renown. 1868Nettleship Ess. Browning Introd. 7 The striving philosophy of ‘Cleon’.
Hence ˈstrivingly adv.
1382Wyclif Deut. xxxi. 27 Euermore stryuyngly ȝe diden [Vulg. contentiose egistis] aȝens the Lord. ― Judg. ix. 49 Stryuyngly [certatim]. 1552Huloet, Stryuyngly, rixose, velitatim. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 72/2 The tyrant..commanded euerie tenth man to be put to the swoord, where⁓to strivinglie and with great rejoising they committed their necks. 1598Florio, Agara, striuingly, contending for the mastrie. 1677Miége Dict. Eng.-Fr., Strivingly, a l'envi. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. ii. xxi. 315 The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. |