besotted, striving, quietude, quieten, technp-besotted

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"Baroque Era telescopes and astrolabes and the precision-engineered innards of a humanoid automaton who can write her name in a neater hand than your own on a piece of paper: these are the oddities and near-Faustian feats of human ingenuity that fill to overflowing several packed rooms at The Met."

— Gothamist

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ECON.ST

Winchester is besotted with ungrammatical constructions - which defect seems allied to his peculiar strivings for genteel archaism, as when he calls a year a "twelvemonth", or refers to a short rest as a "period of quietude".

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied

1I am a parcel of vain strivings tied

2 By a chance bond together,

3Dangling this way and that, their links

4 Were made so loose and wide,

5 Methinks,

6 For milder weather.

quietude 

Pronunciation: /ˈkwʌɪɪtjuːd/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

A state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place:it highlights her quietude and wise passivitya moment of quietude

quieten 

Pronunciation: /ˈkwʌɪət(ə)n/ 

VERB

chiefly British

Make or become quiet and calm:[WITH OBJECT]: her mother was trying to quieten herthings seemed to have quietened down

besotted
adjective
completely in love and therefore likely to behave in an unusual way or be foolish:
He was so completely besotted with her that he couldn't see how badly she treated him.

WordNet: striving

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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: an effortful attempt to attain a goal
Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain