emulation malicious rivalry or contention:
“worthless emulation,”
1 HENRY VI., iv. 4. 21
;
“emulation now, who shall be nearest,”
RICHARD III., ii. 3. 25
;
“pale and bloodless emulation,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, i. 3.
134
;
“Whilst emulation in the army crept,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 2.
212
;
“A gory emulation,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iv. 5.
123
;
“Out of the teeth of emulation,”
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 3. 11
;
“Such factious emulations,”
1 HENRY VI., iv. 1. 113.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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