Definition of Strove

1. Verb. (simple past of strive) ¹

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Definition of Strove

1. strive [v] - See also: strive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strove

stropping
stroppy
strops
stroud
strouding
stroudings
strouds
stroup
stroupan
stroupans
stroups
strout
strouted
strouting
strouts
strove (current term)
strow
strowed
strowen
strower
strowers
strowing
strowings
strowl
strowled
strowling
strowls
strown
strows
stroy

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. ..."

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