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Ambition
Ambition 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.
Ambitious
Ambitious 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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- Plautus in Amphitruo contrasted virtus and ambitio. Virtus is seen as a positive attribute, while though ambitio itself is not necessarily a negative attribute...
- 1:35 Suetonius, The Life of Augustus 2. Penella, R. J. (2004-12-01). "The Ambitio of Livy's Tarquinius Priscus". The classical Quarterly. 54 (2): 630–635...
- Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-99788-7. Penella, Robert J. (December 2004). "The Ambitio of Livy's Tarquinius Priscus". The classical Quarterly. 54 (2): 630–635...
- prime cause for the disastrous civil war of 87 [BC]... His unquenchable ambitio overcame an unusually astute sense of judgement; the result, the beginning...
- January 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2021. "Zeci de firme participă la cel mai ambițios proiect office din România. Progresează lucrările la cea mai înaltă clădire...
- candida, "pure white") for public office. Thus Persius speaks of a cretata ambitio, "chalked ambition". Toga candida is the etymological source of the word...
-  133–. ISBN 978-87-02-03645-9. Allerede Ole Rømer ( 1644–1710 ) var mere ambitiøs. Han syntes, der var alt for meget lys og røg i byen til, at man kunne...
- way". In a negative review, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard called "Xanny" "ambitio[us]", yet not "as soaring as it needs to be", and The Independent's Roisin...
- the original on 4 December 2020. "Regeringen indgår bred aftale om en ambitiøs grøn skattereform". fm.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 August 2024. "Naturgasløsning...
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