aspire
verb (used without object)
to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive).
aspirer
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a word derived from
aspire.
Example Sentences
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But the aspiration was above the competency of the aspirer.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
The first ascents to sovereignty are hard; But, entered once, there never wants or means, Or ministers, to help the aspirer on.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson
Eve the aspirer, give her what she wants, Or wherefore was he born?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the skepticism, assumed or real of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
Hant, hanch, and dheir fellows, admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' wrauth, wauter, and vauz; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo chant and branch.
From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
