All 3 Uses
aspiration
in
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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- In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.†
Chpt 2aspirations = desires
- Their objects, in the main, were to crush out the political aspirations of the Negroes, but they did not confine themselves to this, because schoolhouses as well as churches were burned by them, and many innocent persons were made to suffer.†
Chpt 4
- I think I may say, without seeming egotism, that it is seldom that five years have wrought such a change in the life and aspirations of an individual.†
Chpt 6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(aspiration) a desire to achieve something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)