All 3 Uses
emulate
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Year of Wonders
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- I said I was grateful for the insight into the state of our country's highest councils and would be more grateful still to hear other such poems, for are not all His Majesty's loyal subjects bound to strive to emulate their king?†
Chpt 2
- Here, we poor souls of this village may emulate Our Blessed Lord.†
Chpt 6 *
- As long as I could fill my days in emulation of Elinor, I did not have to closely consider my own state, or my own bleak-seeming future.†
Chpt 15emulation = imitation
Definitions:
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(1)
(emulate) imitate (copy or match)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, emulate can mean to try to reach equality is some sense -- as in "This artists' drawings cannot emulate his water colors."