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Definition of Aspirers
1. aspirer [n] - See also: aspirer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspirers
Literary usage of Aspirers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"“ Ma'am Serres condemns all aspirers to pot That prate of a Junius, since Uncle
Wilmot Ranks scribe of each letter she dares pledge her word, As sure as not ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851)
"Sometimes in danger from kingly aspirers." But whose fault was that? The senate
had a sufficient abhorrence of such conspiracies. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... who were not found pliant were replaced by a younger and less scrupulous class
sufficiently numerous to be designated as the aspirers (die Streber). ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1861)
"... 1776. ous aspirers to the power of dictating the destiny of humanity may have
striven for, to the contrary, would have been vain and futile. ..."
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