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Definition of Ambitioning
1. ambition [v] - See also: ambition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambitioning
Literary usage of Ambitioning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Praise of Folly: By Desiderius Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"Thus have you the draught of a wise man's happiness, more the object of a
commiserating pity, than of an ambitioning envy. But now again come the croaking ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"... which was all it had been ambitioning before, but to be the very mainspring
of thinking, and not merely of individual thinking but of discussion, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"—you whose insular position—not to speak of the volunteers—secures you from
attack ; and who, so far from ambitioning increase of territory, ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1088 Each ambitioning to engross as much as they can.—Clayton, Phil. Trans.
(NED) 1818 Who ambitioned to be his correspondent.—Thomas Jefferson, ' Writings ..."
5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"... them " has been scourged not too severely or contemptuously by Mr. Matthew Arnold,
and is, as he says, " not much worth a wise man's ambitioning. ..."
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