Ambition — Defs

01 n. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

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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.

02 v. t. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.

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To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.[R.]
“Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.” — Trumbull.