ambicion (s.xiii1)
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ambicion (s.xiii1)

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[dat/gdw]

  FEW:  ambitio 24,402b Gdf:  ambition 1,253a GdfC:  ambicion 8,98c TL: ambicïon 1,327 DEAF:  ambicïon  DMF:  ambition  TLF:  ambition  OED:  ambition n.  MED:  ambicioun n.  DMLBS:  ambitio 75b
ambicioun,  ambiciun;  ambitiun  

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1ambition (as a vice), excessive desire for success, achievement or status: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ambiciun […] fait a l’hume desirer terrien honur e seculer poesté  i 26
( MS: 1225-1300 ) pernez garde [...] de ambiciun, ceo est trop grant amur de aver seignurie  330
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 ) ambiciun Dunt la gent sunt fet riches e matire de orguil unt  3321
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  Met le pé en le estru de large ambicioun  418
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Ceste eschaunge estoit faite plus pur grant coveitise et ambicion qe n’estoit avenaunt  297.13
♦ personif. personification of ambition as a vice: 
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) Supplant ad de sa nacioun Trois servantz: c'est Ambicioun, Qui vait entour pour espier Les gens et leur condicioun [...], Circumvencioun [...] Confusioun  3398
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