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

It drew together a very large number of young men emulous of these things; and few foreigners of culture came to Venice without seeking to be admitted to its sessions.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

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

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

My four steeds I harnessed, all white and black-maned, Which straight on their way, fleet and emulous strained.

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius