Strive vs Stryve - What's the difference?
strive | stryve |
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1390, author=John Gower, title=Confessio Amantis, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve : The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Alexander Hume, title=Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But this corruption is caryed with a stronger tyde then reason can resist, and we wil not stryve with the stream. 14. }}
As verbs the difference between strive and stryve
is that strive is to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently while stryve is .As a noun strive
is (obsolete) an effort; a striving.strive
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- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".External links
* *stryve
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