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corrival en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /kəˈɹaɪvəl/

Etymology

From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.
    • Not thinking, perhaps, that this would be, to erect a Power equal, and corrival with that of God Almighty […] 1701, Bishop William Fleetwood, An Essay Upon Miracles:

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corrival en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kəˈɹaɪvəl/

Etymology

From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.

Meanings

  1. A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival.
    • Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as Corriuals, or after, as in this Place”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 1, pages 465–466:
    • So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities: But out upon this half-facd fellowship! 1598, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
  2. (archaic) A companion.
    • The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster, The noble Westmoreland, and warlike Blunt; And many more corrivals and dear men Of estimation and command in arms. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:

Forms

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Deriveds

corrivalship · corrivality · corrivalry

corrival en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kəˈɹaɪvəl/

Etymology

From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.

Meanings

  1. To compete with; to rival

Forms

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corrivalling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
corrivalled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
corrivalled Tense=Past UK lexicographic
corrivaling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
corrivals Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
corrivaled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
corrivaled Tense=Past US lexicographic
corival alternative lexicographic