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verb

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

1.

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?"

2.

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."

3.

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.

noun

Strive n.

1.

An effort; a striving. (R.)

2.

Strife; contention. (Obs.)

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"Strive" Quotes from Famous Books

... is teaching you this—is showing you that you must be more silent. The tongue is one of the greatest enemies to grace (James iii. 5-13). Strive to obey these teachings of God. Yield yourself up to obey; and though you sometimes fail and slip, do not be discouraged, but yield yourself up again and again, and plead more fervently with God to keep you. Fourteen years ago you were learning to walk, and in the process ...

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... spade, Some to the drudgery of a trade: Some she does to Egyptian bondage draw, Bids us make bricks, yet sends us to look out for straw: Some she condemns for life to try To dig the leaden mines of deep philosophy: Me she has to the Muse's galleys tied: In vain I strive to cross the spacious main, In vain I tug and pull the oar; And when I almost reach the shore, Straight the Muse turns the helm, and I launch out again: And yet, to feed my pride, Whene'er I mourn, stops my complaining breath, With promise of a mad ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... this is the vale Akik; here stand and strive in thought: If not a very lover, strive to ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... comprehended; and the more he wrote, the less capable was he of expressing his thoughts. In every step of the inquiry, we are compelled to feel and acknowledge the immeasurable disproportion between the size of the object and the capacity of the human mind. We may strive to abstract the notions of time, of space, and of matter, which so closely adhere to all the perceptions of our experimental knowledge. But as soon as we presume to reason of infinite substance, of spiritual generation; as often as we deduce any positive conclusions from ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... walking-stick. Once or twice he halted when he seemed to be impressing his words the more forcibly upon her, and then I was compelled to stop also and to conceal myself. I would have given much to overhear the trend of their conversation, but strive how I would I was unable. They seemed to fear eavesdroppers, and only spoke in ...

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