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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.]
- The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]1913 Webster
[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Milton.1913 Webster - An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.1913 Webster
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels.Shak.1913 WebsterThe pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.
Burke.1913 Webster
- The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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Ambition, v. t. [Cf. F. ambitionner.] To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]1913 Webster
Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
Trumbull.1913 Webster