[-ING2.] That strives (in senses of the verb).
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 311. Þy stryuande stremez of stryndez so mony.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. pr. vii. (1868), 59. Somtyme þere was a man þat hadde assaied wiþ striuyng wordes an oþer man.
1530. Palsgr., 326/1. Stryvyng, full of stryfe or debate, contentieux.
a. 1566. R. Edwards, Damon & Pithias (facs.), G iij b. Against the wind and striuinge streame I sayle.
1646. Mayne, Serm. Unity, 20. Who … might have askt the same question which the striving Israelite askt Moses, Who made thee a Judge over us?
1697. Dryden, Æneis, I. 637. The striving Artists, and their Arts renown.
1868. Nettleship, Ess. Browning, Introd. 7. The striving philosophy of ‘Cleon.’
Hence Strivingly adv.
1382. Wyclif, Deut. xxxi. 27. Euermore stryuyngly ȝe diden [Vulg. contentiose egistis] aȝens the Lord. Ibid., Judg. ix. 49. Stryuyngly [certatim].
1552. Huloet, Stryuyngly, rixose, velitatim.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 72/2. The tyrant … commanded euerie tenth man to be put to the swoord, whereto strivinglie and with great rejoising they committed their necks.
1598. Florio, Agara, striuingly, contending for the mastrie.
1677. Miége, Dict. Eng.-Fr., Strivingly, a l’envi.
