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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

 

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