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Definition of Strove
1. strive [v] - See also: strive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strove
Literary usage of Strove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: A Picture of by Jocelin de Brakelond, Jocelin, Lionel Cecil Jane, Francis Aidan Gasquet (1907)
"HOW ABBOT HUGH strove TO WIN THE FAVOUR OF MASTER SAMSON AT one time ... Then many
strove against him who afterwards were his flatterers. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"He ceased — and loud the boy did cry, And stretched his little arms on high,
Implored for aid each well-known face, And strove to seek the dame's embrace. ..."