different between gainstrife vs gainstrive
gainstrife
English
Etymology
From gain- +? strife. Compare gainstrive.
Noun
gainstrife (uncountable)
- (archaic) Contention; striving against.
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gainstrive
English
Etymology
From gain- +? strive.
Verb
gainstrive (third-person singular simple present gainstrives, present participle gainstriving, simple past gainstrived or gainstrove, past participle gainstrived or gainstriven)
- (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose. [16th century]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back. [16th century]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
- 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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:
Derived terms
- gainstriving
Related terms
- gainstrife
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