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ambitioned, ppl. a. rare.|æmˈbɪʃənd|
[f. ambition v. + -ed.]
Eagerly sought after or desired.
1651R. Boyle Parthenissa (1655) i. i. 5 My performing it has not onely produc'd the ambition'd effect of making you perceive your fault. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 70 The most coveted and ambition'd dignity in the world. 1824New Monthly Mag. XI. 555 A long-ambitioned and long-promised addition to her summer finery. 1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House III. xxix. 137 ‘I should not have thought it a woman's work.’ This, the most ambitioned praise a woman can receive. |
