emulative

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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016

His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both lines of aptitudes are cultivated and strengthened by the life of sport as well as by the more serious forms of emulative life.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Miss Ethel, rendered thoughtfully emulative by the evidences of her sister's progress, contented herself with tossing her head peremptorily and disdainfully at her treacherous sister.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

So there are "boys' brigades," and other organizations, under clerical sanction, acting to develop the emulative proclivity and the sense of status in the youthful members of the congregation.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein