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▪ I. struggling, vbl. n.|ˈstrʌglɪŋ|
[f. struggle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of struggle v.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 823 For with hir struglyng wel and myghtily The theef fil ouer bord al sodeynly. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lv. (1495) 270 This skynne callyd Hernia is..slakyd somtyme by to grete traueylle of body as by grete strogelynge and wrastelynge. c1440Bone Flor. 1853 In hys armes he can hur folde, Hur rybbes crakyd as they breke wolde, In struglynge can they stryve. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. Pref. *viij b, And in places not a fewe I haue had muche strougleyng & wrastleyng with the faultes of enprientyng in y⊇ bookes. 1592Greene 3rd Pt. Conny catching E 3, Both his handkercher with the chaine, and also his purse..were taken out of his pocket in this strugling. 1649Milton Eikon. xxvii. 211 It would..put us to another fatal struggling for libertie and life, more dubious then the former. 1702Rowe Tamerl. i. i. 296 With strong Reluctance and Convulsive Struggling. 1830Carlyle Richter Again Ess. 1840 II. 300 No character of this kind..is to be formed without manifold..struggling with the world.
pl.1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 242 They should with much more band Containe my struglings. 1690T. Burnet Theory Earth iii. xi. 96 Some Causes impelling the Waters one way, and some another, make intestine struglings and contrary motions. a1715G. Burnet Own Time iv. (1724) I. 797 All the strugglings which that party have made ever since that time..did rise out of this. 1783Med. Commun. I. 303 His strugglings were more violent. 1890D. Davidson Mem. Long Life ii. 29, I confess to some strugglings of the heart as we hurried past the scenes of my boyhood.
†2. Effervescence. (Cf. struggle n. 1 c.) Obs.
1764Museum Rust. II. 378 You may..try it with vinegar, where the effervescence, or struggling, will be much stronger than in water.
▪ II. struggling, ppl. a.|ˈstrʌglɪŋ|
[f. struggle v. + -ing2.]
That struggles. In recent use often: That has difficulty in making a livelihood.
1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 99 When stiffe, strong, struglyng, sturdie storms, began for to arise. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xi. 12 There an huge heape of singultes did oppresse His strugling soule. 1599Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. i, Now patience hoope my sides With steeled ribs, least I doe burst my breast With struggling passions. 1693Dryden Persius v. 232 The strugling Greyhound gnaws his Leash in vain. 1697― æneis v. 35 Sicilia..whose hospitable Shores In safety we may reach with strugling Oars. 1757Gray Elegy xviii, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. 1817C. Wolfe Burial of Sir J. Moore 7 By the struggling moon-beam's misty light. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxiv, ‘What do you mean to do for me, old fellow?’ asked Mr. Lenville, poking the struggling fire with his walking stick. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 324 The rest of the class may be described as merely street-sellers; toiling, struggling, plodding, itinerant tradesmen. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 219 To the impecunious and struggling photographer..‘copies’, of course, mean considerable inconvenience.
absol.1834(title) Leigh Hunt's London Journal, to Assist the Inquiring, Animate the Struggling, [etc.]. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. vi, But, to the living and the struggling, a new, Fourteenth morning dawns. 1884J. Payn Lit. Recoll. 75 Their behaviour to the Young and Struggling. |