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rivality|raɪˈvælɪtɪ| [ad. L. rīvālitas: see rival n.2 and -ity. So F. rivalité, It. rivalita, Sp. rivalidad, Pg. -ade.] = rivalry 1.
1582Stanyhurst æneis, etc. (Arb.) 140 Dame Venus and kingdooms can no riualitye suffer. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. v. 8 Cæsar..denied him riuality, would not let him partake in the glory of action. 1628Bp. Hall Old Relig. (1686) 107 Whatever worship more than mere humane is imparted to the creature, sets it in rivality with our Maker. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. Wks. (1868) 236 Loyalty can admit of no rivality. 1781Characters in Ann. Reg. 31/1 The rivality between the two nations will last. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio I. 318, I wish this rivality to be strongly marked. 1803[see rivalry 2]. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poet. II. 63 It..stimulates the exertions of rivality without hazarding its disappointments. 1876‘Ouida’ Winter City x, Society is a Battle of the Frogs, for rivality in dress and debt. |