Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RI'VAL-RY
RI'VAL-RY, n. [from rival.]
Competition; a strife or effort to obtain an object which another is pursuing; as, rivalry in love; or an endeavor to equal or surpass another in some excellence; emulation; as, rivalry for superiority at the bar or in the senate.
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