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ambitiously, adv.|æmˈbɪʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In an ambitious manner; with eager desire of attaining to high position or gaining advantage.
1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle iii. vii. (1483) 54 They hauen set their hertes ambiciously for to kepen and assemblen sommes of tresour. 1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iii. 227 Nor ambiciously gape for honors. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 18 Princes, that striue..Ambitiously for Rule and Empery. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. 70 Martyrdome, as it is not cowardly to be declined, so it is not ambitiously to be affected. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 116 A croud of rivals, who ambitiously disputed the hand of the princess. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner iv, Guide after guide Ambitiously the office tried.
2. With manifest effort to be something great; in bad sense, pretentiously.
1822New Monthly Mag. V. 332 Scenic description..laboriously and ambitiously worked up. a1884Mod. An address ambitiously worded. Ambitiously conceived, but unsuccessfully carried out.
†3. By personal canvassing; fawningly. Obs. rare.
1598Greenwey Tacitus Ann. iv. i. 89 Neither did he abstaine from ambitiously courting the Senators. |