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AmbitionAmbition Am*bi"tion, n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going
around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to
solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor? fr. ambire
to go around. See Ambient, Issue.]
1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or
any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. --Milton.
2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for
preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment
of something.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By
that sin fell the angels. --Shak.
The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six
thousand more acres. --Burke. Ambition
Ambition Am*bi"tion, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.]
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece,
bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
--Trumbull.
Ambitionist
Ambitionist Am*bi"tion*ist, n.
One excessively ambitious. [R.]
Ambitionless
Ambitionless Am*bi"tion*less, a.
Devoid of ambition. --Pollok.
AmbitiousAmbitious Am*bi"tious, a. [L. ambitiosus: cf. F. ambitieux.
See Ambition.]
1. Possessing, or controlled by, ambition; greatly or
inordinately desirous of power, honor, office,
superiority, or distinction.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an
honorable man. --Shak.
2. Strongly desirous; -- followed by of or the infinitive;
as, ambitious to be or to do something.
I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
--Evelyn.
Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in
vain. --Cowper.
3. Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition;
showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style.
A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless
race, From off wide, ambitious base. --Collins. Ambitiously
Ambitiously Am*bi"tious*ly, adv.
In an ambitious manner.
Ambitiousness
Ambitiousness Am*bi"tious*ness ([a^]m*b[i^]sh"[u^]s*n[e^]s),
n.
The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
Unambition
Unambition Un`am*bi"tion, n.
The absence of ambition. [R.] --F. W. Newman.
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