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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