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Definition of the day : « emulative »

  • adj imitative
Example sentences :
  • Their eagerness was emulative, and made them rapid in their haste.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624 » by Various
  • She was too self-centred, and, if the truth were told, too emulative.
  • Extract from : « By the Light of the Soul » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Wealth gives rank, and gratifies not only the greed but also the emulative spirit of the pack.
  • Extract from : « The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions » by Carveth Read
  • Pecuniary management is of an emulative character and gives, primarily, relative success only.
  • Extract from : « The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays » by Thorstein Veblen
  • By degrees men and women are making ready to take their places in an emulative rather than a materialistically competitive order.
  • Extract from : « An Essay On The American Contribution And The Democratic Idea » by Winston Churchill
  • Goethe grasped antiquity in the right way · invariably with an emulative soul.
  • Extract from : « We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) » by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • It will be an emulative pleasure to children, a new delight to parents, a mutual gratification to be at school together in church.
  • Extract from : « Church Reform » by Richard Carlile
  • His emulative practice of his art asks for a closer consideration than that usually given to it.
  • Extract from : « Oscar Wilde » by Arthur Ransome
  • The result is that the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative demonstration of force.
  • Extract from : « The Theory of the Leisure Class » by Thorstein Veblen
  • To read of a noble deed brought swift tears to her eyes in these days of mutation, and stirred her to emulative dreams.
  • Extract from : « A Prairie Infanta » by Eva Wilder Brodhead