stryve
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stryve
- Obsolete spelling of strive
- 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis[1]:
- For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve: The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why.
- 1865, Alexander Hume, Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue[2]:
- But this corruption is caryed with a stronger tyde then reason can resist, and we wil not stryve with the stream. 14.