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æmulous

æmulous is the obsolete spelling of emulous.

Meaning of emulous

Adjective

emulous (comparative more emulous, superlative most emulous)

  1. Ambitious or competitive.
    • His armes and other moꝛe ſinewous than fleſhie, a ſtout and a valiant gentleman he was and emulous.1587 January, Raphael Holinshed, “The Description of Meilerius”, in The Second Volume of Chronicles: Conteining the Description, Conquest, Inhabitation, and Troublesome Estate of Ireland; […], 2nd...

Forms of æmulous

comparativemore æmulous
superlativemost æmulous

Questions about æmulous

What is æmulous the obsolete spelling of?
Æmulous is the obsolete spelling of emulous.

Words near æmulous in the dictionary

  1. æmulated
  2. æmulates
  3. æmulating
  4. æmulation
  5. æmulations
  6. æmulous
  7. Æneas
  8. Æneid
  9. Æneids
  10. Æneolithic
  11. æneous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æmulous (page history and authors); emulous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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