Word from Old French for "compete"

Usage examples of strive.

Decimus, a selfmade man who had built his wealth, strove now to right what his own affluence had wrought upon his children.

In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

Potentiality may be thought of as a Substratum to states and shapes--and forms which are to be received, which it welcomes by its nature and even strives for--sometimes in gain but sometimes, also, to loss, to the annulling of some distinctive manner of Being already actually achieved.

Her mud stupidities, as well as the frequent gaucheries which seemed to bother others, he thought of as merely amusing-perhaps because he grew tired at times of being surrounded by clever, vigilant minds, forever striving to match the astuteness of his own.

At that time, if one does not continue striving to enhance the power of attentional vividness, one may fall into a complacent, pseudo-meditative trance, which may result in dementia.

Lady Bellamy, the heart that can remember it can also strive to reach another like it.

Yet, in spite of this intimacy, I continued to look upon it as my bounden duty to keep the Nechludoffs in general, and Varenika in particular, in ignorance of my true feelings and tastes, and strove always to appear altogether another young man than what I really was--to appear, indeed, such a young man as could never possibly have existed.

The Bravo rushed towards those fissures in the venerable but polluted pile he had already striven to open, and with frantic force he endeavored to widen them with his hands.

Above all, let us strive to disengage ourselves from homogeneous space, this substratum of fixity, this arbitrary scheme of measurement and division, which, to our greater advantage, subtends the natural, qualitative, and undivided extension of images.

It was a time when Americans were striving to make up for the privations of war, but Meany took it upon himself to explain to workers the need for sacrifice.

I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.

Nothing in my experience intimated that such men now or ever had existed as other than a fiction, yet they embodied a principle of anonymity that spoke to my sense of style, and so when I entered the carceral system at the age of fifteen, my parents having concluded that a night or two spent in the county lock-up might address my aggressive tendencies, I strived to present a sturdy, unglamorous presence among the mesomorphs, the skin artists and the flamboyantly hirsute.

Or, to make an end, it is millenarianism, the theory that the world is going to blow up tomorrow, or the day after, or two weeks hence, and that all sweating and striving are thus useless.

Him misconceive, suppose this Caliban strives hard and ails no less, would you have him hurt?

She musta caught the vibration that under all that muscle and power there was what they call the true blue, the clean thoughts and the honest striving and so forth.