Competing. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. [f. COMPETE v.2 + -ING2.] That competes.

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1862.  Ruskin, Munera P. (1880), 103. The gracious or loving, instead of the strained, or competing manner of doing things.

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1868.  Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, i. (1869), 11. The Cyclic Poems … never attained to an equal or competing fame.

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Mod.  Several of the competing poems have been published.

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