English Dictionary

gainstrive

verb

(obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose. / (obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back.

He will gainstrive to achieve his goals.

意味（1）

(obsolete, transitive) To strive against; to resist, oppose.

意味（2）

(obsolete, intransitive) To resist; to fight back.

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.