What does gainstrive mean?
Gainstrive means (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose..
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.
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Gainstrive means (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose..
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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.
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