emulous

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Cultivator of the gardens of the mind, himself the very bud and bloom of humanistic learning, he follows Socrates in having taken as his modus operandi the emulous pursuit of all that is most excellent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Foote girls began again, with rich profusion of detail, their voices rising shrill, one above the other, and playing together at their full height like emulous fountains.

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

With all the alacrity of men fresh and "eager for the fray," they began the ascent, and, such was the emulous ardor to be first, that it assumed all the features of a race.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

But in the tenth century, the partisans of the pope, were only citizens, emulous of obtaining the independence of their city or republic, and to withdraw their elective head from all domination.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

The conflict will become one of ideas merely, an emulous peaceful contest for the prize of truth.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix