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verb

Strive v. i. (past strove; past part. striven or strived; pres. part. striving)

To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. "Was for this his ambition strove To equal Caesar first, and after, Jove?"

To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. "My Spirit shall not always strive with man." "Why dost thou strive against him?" "Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate."

To vie; to compete; to be a rival. "(Not) that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive."

Synonyms: To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim.

adjective

Striving adj. A. & n. from Strive.

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Etymology of 'Striving'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Striving" Quotes from Famous Books

... a time, damaged. Others were little heard of. The captain of one ship, it was said, was thrown overboard by his men; another sailed with half the crew in irons, none knew where. But yet they were all in motion, each striving after its own fashion, now in storm, now in calm, towards ...

— Norse Tales and Sketches • Alexander Lange Kielland

... I seen the Sun, To do her honour, Fix himself at his noon To look upon her; And hath gilt every grove, Every hill near her, With his flames from above Striving to cheer her: And when she from his sight Hath herself turned, He, as it had been night, In clouds hath mourned. On ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts. Nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. I was ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

... brain in a whirl. We came to a stop at the gate, beneath an apple-tree, then in full bloom. I think now that my mind at that time was not—exactly sound. The severe mental discipline which I had forced upon myself, the long striving to subdue the strongest feelings of a man's heart, together with my real heart-grief at my mother's death, were enough, certainly, to craze any one. I was crazy; for I only meant to say "Good-bye," but I said, "Good-bye, Jane; I would ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

... their reluctant women and their helpless and wondering children into unfamiliar hardships—At times I visioned the Middle Border as a colony of ants—which was an injustice to the ants, for ants have a reason for their apparently futile and aimless striving. ...

— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

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