Word Meanings - GAINSTRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to GAINSTRIVE)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - STRUGGLER
One who struggles. - STRIVE
1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley. 2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - STRIVEN
p. p. of Strive. - STRIVED
Striven. Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel. Rom. xv. 20. - STRUGGLE
to flog, Sw. stryka to stroke, to strike, Dan. stryge, G. straucheln 1. To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body. 2. To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to - WITHSTAND
To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. Piers Plowman. I withstood him to the face. Gal. ii. 11. Some village Hampden, that, - STRIVER
One who strives. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene." - WITHSTANDER
One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - RESTRIVE
To strive anew. - GAINSTRIVE
To strive or struggle against; to withstand. Spenser. - NOTWITHSTANDING
Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude