▪ I. striving, vbl. n.
(ˈstraɪvɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb strive; an instance of this.
| c 1205 Lay. 15561 Vmben ane stunde heo bigunnen striuinge. c 1290 St. James 284 in S. Eng. Leg. 42 Bi-twene þe fader and þe sone þe striuingue laste longue. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 250 Batailis and stryvyngis in plee shulden be forsaken of Cristene men. a 1425 tr. 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. 1535 Coverdale Ps. xvii[i]. 43 Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people. 1615 Chapman Odyss. iv. 558 Hold him there, In spite of all his striuings to be gone. 1677 A. 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. 1718 Rowe Lucan vii. 513 The great deciding Hour at length is come, To end the Strivings of distracted Rome. 1851 Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. ii. 211 The fervid striving of the games. 1871 R. 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. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. (1868) 59 Somtyme þere was a man þat hadde assaied wiþ striuyng wordes an oþer man. 1530 Palsgr. 326/1 Stryvyng, full of stryfe or debate, contentieux. a 1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (facs.) G iij b, Against the wind and striuinge streame I sayle. 1646 Mayne Serm. Unity 20 Who..might have askt the same question which the striving Israelite askt Moses, Who made thee a Judge over us? 1697 Dryden æneis i. 637 The striving Artists, and their Arts renown. 1868 Nettleship Ess. Browning Introd. 7 The striving philosophy of ‘Cleon’. |
Hence ˈstrivingly adv.
| 1382 Wyclif Deut. xxxi. 27 Euermore stryuyngly ȝe diden [Vulg. contentiose egistis] aȝens the Lord. ― Judg. ix. 49 Stryuyngly [certatim]. 1552 Huloet, Stryuyngly, rixose, velitatim. 1563–87 Foxe 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. 1598 Florio, Agara, striuingly, contending for the mastrie. 1677 Miége Dict. Eng.-Fr., Strivingly, a l'envi. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. ii. xxi. 315 The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. |