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Definition of Striven
1. strive [v] - See also: strive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Striven
Literary usage of Striven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parsifal: A Festival Music-drama by Richard Wagner, John P. Jackson (1892)
"KLINGSOR, sealed on the ramparts at one side, is looking into a metallic mirror.—He
represents the spirit of evil. Having striven in vain to become a Knight ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The violence of sorrow is not »t the £rst to be striven withal; being, like a
mighty beast, sooner tamed with following, than overthrown by ..."
3. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"In the present sketch I have striven merely to furnish an anecdotal record of
the leading features of Cobbett's character, ..."
4. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... striven to accomplish—to widen the metallic basis of the currency by a greater
infusion of coin into the smaller channels of circulation. ..."
5. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"He had at last reached the goal for which he had so long striven. Three times
already had he seized on Verona, and each time he had been forced to ..."
6. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"Both authors seem to have striven to represent all that was revolting in the most
offensive language ; and both pieces were addressed precisely to the same ..."
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