emulously

adv

emulously

adv

Etymology From emulous + -ly.

1

In an emulous manner; ambitiously or competitively.

  • The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, […]1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Story of the Door”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 3:
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