emulative

Goethe grasped antiquity in the right way · invariably with an emulative soul.

The result is that the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative demonstration of force.

This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament.

But after all allowances and deductions have been made, there is left some remainder of motives of a non-emulative kind.

His emulative practice of his art asks for a closer consideration than that usually given to it.