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verb

Aspire v. t. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. (Obs.) "That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds."

Aspire v. i. (past & past part. aspired; pres. part. aspiring)

To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. "Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. "My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire."

noun

Aspire n. Aspiration. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Aspire'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aspire" Quotes from Famous Books

... I cannot offer her an untried heart; 'tis somewhat worn by many barterings. But I know that this heart beats with accentuation in her presence; and when I come to her some day and clasp her in my arms, as I aspire to do, I trust that her lips may not turn away from mine and that she may be more glad because I am so near and that her stainless heart may sound an echoing chime. For, with a great and troubled adoration, ...

— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell

... thousand livres, in rentes sur l'etat—a handsome sum, but nothing to compare to the rent-roll of Count Dominic, Count de la Grinche, Seigneur de la Haute Pigre, Baron de la Bigorne; he had estates and wealth which might authorize him to aspire to the hand of ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Aynesworth joined the outside of the circle of men who had gathered round Wingrave. He was answering their questions readily enough, if a little laconically. He was quite aware that he occupied in society the one unique place to which princes might not even aspire—there was something of divinity about his millions, something of awe in the tone of the men with whom he talked. Women pretended to be interested in him because of the romance of his suddenly acquired wealth—the men did not trouble ...

— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... World, whose pedigrees are arithmetic (at least with many of its items, though the true Uncle Sam was the last for that); neither could I come up to the largeness of universal brotherhood. That was not to be expected of a female; and few things make a man more angry than for his wife to aspire to it. No such ideas had ever troubled me; I had more important things to think of, or, at any rate, something to be better carried out. And of all these desultory thoughts it came that I packed up that odious but very lovely locket, without further attempt ...

— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore

... noontide of this nineteenth century, in which we subtly live and subtly suffer. Always throughout the circling ages the soul of man has to some slight extent aspired after folly, as Nature aspires after Art, and as the old and learned aspire after the wonderful ignorance that lies hidden between the scarlet covers of the passionate book of youth. Always there have been in the world earnest men and earnest women striving with a sacred wisdom to compass the highest forms of folly, seeking with a manifold persistence ...

— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens

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