Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a striving manner; with earnest or persistent efforts or struggles.
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- adverb With
effort .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He has so entirely established himself in that ideal that he no longer needs strivingly to assert it, -- any more than Nature needs to pin upon oak-trees an affirmation that the idea of an oak dwells in her formative thought.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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I had to find it out -- slowly, hungrily, painfully, strivingly, because I've always been such a fool.
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her.
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She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her.
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She takes hold of my hand, and having rolled up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly, towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I missed the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so fiat, or so hollow, in the vexation
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749
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She takes hold of my hand, and having roll’d up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss’d the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her.
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