æmulation

A form of emulation — The endeavor or desire to equal or excel someone else in qualities or actions.

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Meanings

nounæmulation (countable and uncountable, plural æmulations)

plural æmulations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of emulation.

    […] with what æmulation of his concurrents and feare of the Umpiers, hee strove for the Mastery, it is almost incredible. His manner was to deale with his adversaries, as if they had been but his æquals and of the same condition with him, in this sort : namely, to observe, watch and mark their […]

    1552–1637, Suetonius, Philemon Holland (translator), and Charles Whibley (editor), History of Twelve Caesars, volume 2, page 117 (1899 republication; D. Nutt)
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APA

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