Bible Dictionaries
Emulous

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; - with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.

(2):

(a.) Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Emulous'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/emulous.html. 1828.