Definition of Emulousness

1. n. The quality of being emulous.

Definition of Emulousness

1. Noun. The quality of being emulous. ¹

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Definition of Emulousness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Emulousness

emulatory
emulatress
emulatresses
emulatrix
emule
emuled
emules
emulge
emulged
emulgent
emulges
emulging
emuling
emulous
emulously
emulousness
emulousnesses
emulsible
emulsic
emulsic acid
emulsifiable
emulsification
emulsifications
emulsified
emulsifier
emulsifiers
emulsifies
emulsify
emulsifying
emulsifying wax

Literary usage of Emulousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oregon: The Struggle for Possession by William Barrows (1888)
"... yet a new world still, and the blood mounts to our cheeks ; our eyes swim; our voices are stifled with emulousness of so much glory; their tro- sre ..."

2. The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography by Edwin John Ellis (1907)
"He tried to feed his emulousness now with the consolation that he knew how to grind his tools better than Woollett, who became a more popular engraver. ..."

3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"In a word," he says, " there was such an emulousness for virtue that each family and each house seemed to become a church, from the love of holiness of ..."

4. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederic William Farrar (1907)
"In a word," he says, "there was auch an emulousness for virtue that each family and each house seemed to become a church, from the love of holiness of their ..."

5. The Bird by Jules Michelet (1869)
"... that the lovers are two or three times more numerous than the lady-loves, you may conceive the violence of this burning emulousness, in which, perhaps, ..."

6. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1886)
"The emulousness of the artist cannot enter into his estimate. The versifier is merely an amateur. In the same way the amateur in painting may very well play ..."

7. The Redemption of Africa: A Story of Civilization, with Maps, Statistical by Frederic Perry Noble (1899)
"Protestant denominationalism has enhanced the holy emulousness of Christian brethren; provoked them to a blessed rivalry in good works; ..."

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