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 latter were as emulous to fight the battle of their master as those who had been sent to the new road.

From Brother Against Brother The War on the Border by Optic, Oliver

Thanks to nature for intolerance, for envious and emulous self-seeking, for the insatiable desire to have and to rule!

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Sombart, Werner

Ludolf was a swaggering bravo, emulous, at middle age, of the vices of profligate youth.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

A friend—envious and emulous of the detective work so minutely described by Conan Doyle—was driving last summer on an old New England road entirely unfamiliar to him.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse