RI'VALRY, noun [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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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.