Gainstrive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Gainstrive is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose.
Meaning
(obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back.
Example Sentences
For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.
Word Forms
- gainstrives
- gainstriving
- gainstrived
- gainstrove
- gainstriven
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include strive, upstrive, fight, struggle, agonize, kemp.
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