单词 | rivality |
释义 | rivalityn. Rivalry, competition; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] rivality1528 strife1530 envy1541 emulation1552 contention1576 pinglinga1578 countermatch1581 paragon1590 competency1594 corrivality1598 rivalry1598 concurrence1603 contestation1603 competitiona1608 rivalling1607 concurrency1609 strift1612 corrivalry1614 rivalty1631 contest1648 corrivalty1649 coping1678 co-rivalry1835 rivalism1850 1528 T. Wyatt tr. Plutarch Quyete of Mynde sig. b Scoldyng, angre, enuy, folies, & combrous riualytees, ar the foulyst spottes of them that they be in. 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 97 Dame Venus and kingdooms can no riualitye suffer. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. v. 7 Cæsar..denied him riuality, would not let him partake in the glory of the action. View more context for this quotation 1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. x. iii. 98 What euer worship more then meere humane is imparted to the creature, sets it in riualitie with our Maker. a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1694) II. 274 Loyalty can admit no rivality. 1783 Ann. Reg. 1781 Characters 31/1 The rivality between the two nations will last. 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio I. 318 I wish this rivality to be strongly marked. 1829 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry II. 63 It..stimulates the exertions of rivality without hazarding its disappointments. 1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City x. 316 Society is a Battle of the Frogs, for rivality in dress and debt. 1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 25 May 10/5 The young women are straining every effort to top the list... Rarely, indeed, could such pleasurable rivality be witnessed. 1944 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 22 Apr. 4/1 The East Side business men and the West Side business men can work up a rivality. 2000 Australian (Nexis) 14 June b20 Writers are easily mean to each other: rivalities, backstabbing, jealousy are all too common. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1528 |
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