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Definition of Striving
1. Noun. An effortful attempt to attain a goal.
Generic synonyms: Attempt, Effort, Endeavor, Endeavour, Try
Specialized synonyms: Jehad, Jihad
Derivative terms: Strain, Strain, Strenuous, Strive
Definition of Striving
1. Verb. (present participle of strive) ¹
2. Noun. Effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Striving
1. strive [v] - See also: strive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Striving
Literary usage of Striving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Combined with this was the striving for constantly new forms of reliquaries,
among which busts in particular now became very popular. ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"The priest said, ' we must always be striving. ... it was a sad and comfortless
sort of striving, to strive with a belief that we should never overcome. ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"It is like striving to make the sun, or the wind, or the sea symbols to signify
exclusively the particular thoughts of our day. But what signifies it? ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"striving AND FAILING From <A Christmas Sermon ' LFE is not designed to minister
to a man's vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... are inhabited by a mixed race in whose veins African arid Indian blood are
striving for the ascendency, with a dash of white blood infused by buccaneers ..."
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