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▪ I. aspiring, vbl. n.|əˈspaɪərɪŋ|
[f. as aspirer + -ing1.]
1. Aspiration, steadfast upward desire, longing.
1584Copie of Letter 46 Neither is this arte of aspiring new or straunge. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. v, To lackey one of these is all my prides aspiring. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 55 Frozen regions..might naturally be supposed to damp the aspirings of genius. 1821Southey Vis. Judgem. xi. Wks. X. 238 Here were the gallant youths of high heroic aspiring.
†2. The upward tapering of a spire, etc. Obs. rare.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 211 (T.) Nor are those so fastidious in pyramidical aspirings, nor curious in architecture..as in many lesser towns.
▪ II. aˈspiring, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. Ardently desirous of advancement or distinction; of lofty aim, ambitious.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 154 We which are not of that aspiring mind. 1679Establ. Test. 5 Having little left of all their aspiring Graspings after Empire. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. 1842 I. 12 Even virtue is dangerous, as an aspiring quality, that claims an esteem..independent of the countenance of the court. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 408 Two able and aspiring prelates.
2. Rising, tapering upward, soaring.
c1565T. Robinson Mary Mag. 416 Beheld th' asp[i]ringe tower of vaine delight. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 135 It is usual to select aspiring Trees. 1718Pope Iliad xii. 368 To sure destruction dooms the aspiring wall. 1810Southey Kehama xix. v, Wks. VIII. 160 Upward, to reach its head, For myriad years the aspiring Brama soar'd.
b. fig. (with some sense of 1 combined.)
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 84 Then make thee winges of thine aspyring wit. 1665–9Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 48 The devout Reflector cannot take an occasion of an aspiring Meditation; as in a hopeful morning the humble Lark can. |