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Emulous

adjective
1.
Characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation.
2.
Eager to surpass others.  Synonym: rivalrous.






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"Emulous" Quotes from Famous Books



... the minds and conversations of a whole people is strikingly illustrated by this philosopher's explanation of the term to laconise,—the mode of speech peculiar to the Lacedaemonians. This people affected to appear unlearned, and seemed only emulous to excel the rest of the Greeks in fortitude and in military skill. According to Plato's notion, this was really a political artifice, with a view to conceal their pre-eminent wisdom. With the jealousy of a petty state, they ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... regent see herself emancipated from her long thraldom; the emulous industry of the nobility lightened for her the burden of business, and their insinuating humility allowed her to feel the full sweetness ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... half! for it seemed, it was certain, to match 25 man's birth, Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I; And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth, As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to scale the sky: Novel splendors burst forth, grew familiar and dwelt with mine, Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its wandering 30 star; ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... one—they were not ambitious of the proud privilege of appending for seven years two letters to their names, and of franking some half-dozen others per diem. No! the rivals who form the theme of our present paper were emulous of obtaining no place in Parliament, but, what is far more desirable, a place in the affections of a lovely maid. They sought not for the suffrages of the unwashed, but for the smiles of a fair one,—they neither ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various

... you rode twelve mile with Emulous, you must have had an earache for the last six. Did he ask a question or two about your personal affairs, here ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln



Words linked to "Emulous" :   rivalrous, competitory, emulation, competitive



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