Ambition (&unr_;), n. [F. ambition, L. ambitio a going around, especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, desire for office or honor), fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient, Issue.] 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
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[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton.
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2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. Shak.
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The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.
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