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    Ambition , 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.]
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      [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
      Milton.

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    2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
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      Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
      By that sin fell the angels.
      Shak.

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      The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
      Burke.

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    Ambition, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
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    Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
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