A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1520-1535, 1624-1646
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(Striving,) Stryving, vbl. n. Also: stryveing, stryuyng. [ME and e.m.E. striuinge (Layamon), stryvyng (Wyclif), striuing (1615), striving (1677); Strive v.] a. (A feeling of) strife; a disposition to quarrel or fight. b. The action of quarrelling or fighting. c. The action of exerting oneself strenuously (to do something). —a. c1520-c1535 Nisbet St. James iii 14.
Gif ye haue bittir invy, and stryuyngis ar in your hartis, wil ye nocht haue glorie, and be learis aganes the treuth —b. 1632 Culross 175.
For continued stryving and flyting on the Lord's Day —c. 1624 Dunferm. Ann. 283.
The poor inhabitantis … with mutche stryveing and extreame hasaird of thair lyveis, opposed thame selffis 1646 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 70.
Insted of stryving to mak peace
