Definition of Emulation

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Definition of Emulation
	Emulation The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention. Related Definitions: An, Another, Assiduous, Contention, Endeavor, Envious, Envy, Equal, Excel, In, Or, Qualities, Rivalry, Striving, The, To

Emulation Quotations

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding

Emulation Translations

emulation in German is Nacheiferung, Wetteifer, Nachbildung
emulation in Italian is emulazione, emulazione

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