WORD OF THE DAY: STRIVOUS

​STRIVOUS
 
ADJ.
full of strife ...a1382 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from strife (n.) + - ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1382 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Whi thanne turned awei is this puple in to Jerusalem with striuous turnyng awei?..."
From: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the Earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate
- Edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden;
Oxford University Press edition, 1801

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