emulative

• Similar barbarities were practised by subordinate officers, emulative of this example of their superior, or in obedience to his orders. —  The Life of Francis Marion
• If every workman of the same class went in the same rut, and were paid the same uniform rate of wages, irrespective of his natural or acquired ability, such a system would destroy the emulative spirit which forms the chief basis of manipulative efficiency and practical skill, and on which, in my opinion, the prosperity of our manufacturing establishments mainly depends. —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• Their eagerness was emulative, and made them rapid in their haste. —  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
• The effectual presence of motives of an emulative or invidious origin in non-emulative works of this kind might be shown at length and with detail, in any one of the classes of enterprise spoken of above. —  Theory of the Leisure Class
• The gratification nearest home was the imitative, the emulative -- that is on my part: W. J., —  A Small Boy and Others

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