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At all events, in the second line, "emulation" should be "emulative," to make it agree with the other clauses of the sentence.
Wealth gives rank, and gratifies not only the greed but also the emulative spirit of the pack.
THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND OF HIS SUPERSTITIONSCARVETH READ
It will be an emulative pleasure to children, a new delight to parents, a mutual gratification to be at school together in church.
CHURCH REFORMRICHARD CARLILE
Their eagerness was emulative, and made them rapid in their haste.
The result is that the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative demonstration of force.
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASSTHORSTEIN VEBLEN
Goethe grasped antiquity in the right way · invariably with an emulative soul.
WE PHILOLOGISTS, VOLUME 8 (OF 18)FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
To read of a noble deed brought swift tears to her eyes in these days of mutation, and stirred her to emulative dreams.
A PRAIRIE INFANTAEVA WILDER BRODHEAD
By degrees men and women are making ready to take their places in an emulative rather than a materialistically competitive order.
AN ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAWINSTON CHURCHILL
His emulative practice of his art asks for a closer consideration than that usually given to it.
OSCAR WILDEARTHUR RANSOME
It was a new idea—the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life.
JUDE THE OBSCURETHOMAS HARDY
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