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動詞

gainstrive (三人称単数 現在形 gainstrives, 現在分詞 gainstriving, 過去形 gainstrived または gainstrove, 過去分詞 gainstrived または gainstriven)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose. [16th century]
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back. [16th century]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.7:

     For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.

派生語

• gainstriving

関連する語

• gainstrife