[-ING1.] The action of the verb STRIVE; an instance of this.
c. 1205. Lay., 15561. Vmben ane stunde heo bigunnen striuinge.
c. 1290. St. James, 284, in S. Eng. Leg., 42. Bi-twene þe fader and þe sone þe striuingue laste longue.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 250. Batailis and stryvyngis in plee shulden be forsaken of Cristene men.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 83. And forþi realgre is called of som men rede auripigment: of þe namez is no stryuyng so þat we vnderstond þe þingz.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. xvii[i]. 43. Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., IV. 558. Hold him there, In spite of all his striuings to be gone.
1677. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 13. When ever they give Notice they will take up a Sum of Moneys, there is great striving who can get in his first.
1718. Rowe, Lucan, VII. 513. The great deciding Hour at length is come, To end the Strivings of distracted Rome.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., II. 211. The fervid striving of the games.
1871. R. H. Hutton, Ess., II. 4. My ideas and higher strivings.
