Noun: emulation
| Singular | emulation |
| Plural | emulations |
Sample Sentences
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a great figure who is worthy of respect and emulation
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Allur'd, not forc'd, encourag'd, not compell'd;
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The shrinking eye look'd up, the soul was cheer'd,
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Felt as it learnt, confided e'er it fear'd;
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And first by emulation's ardour mov'd,
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Prest onward in the path which soon it lov'd. [1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Tribute to an Instructor, page 210:]
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Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country […] , but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children […] [, New York Review Books 2001, p.263]
Nouns inflected like emulation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French émulation, from Latin aemulātiō. See: Latin Nouns '
aemulātiō'.
Verbs referencing "emulation"
Finnish Nouns
emulaatio, Polish Nouns
emulacja.