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Rivality :: Rivality (n.) Rivalry; competition.

Prefer :: Prefer (v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; -- said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc..

Asker :: Asker (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.

Custom :: Custom (n.) Frequent repetition of the same act; way of acting common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; usage; method of doing or living.

Address :: Address (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters..

Imitation :: Imitation (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon..

Ask :: Ask (v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread..

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Address :: Address (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)..

Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..

Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..

Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle..

Rival :: Rival (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions..

Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..

Gain :: Gain (n.) To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize..

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..

Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas..

Emulative :: Emulative (a.) Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort..

Memorializer :: Memorializer (n.) One who petitions by a memorial.

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