gainstrive en · VERB
Etymology
From gain- + strive.
Meanings
- (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To resist; to fight back.
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, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gainstrives | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| gainstrived | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gainstrived | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gainstriving | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gainstriven | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gainstrove | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gainstrove | Tense=Past | lexicographic |