adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an aspiring manner; ambitiously.

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1627.  G. Watts, trans. Bacon’s Adv. Learn., Pref. (1640), 17. We may not be too aspiringly wise.

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1863.  Mrs. C. Clarke, Shaks. Char., xix. 481. Aufidius is aspiringly self-seeking.

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